Cultivating Citizenship. Creating a Free and Virtuous Society.

Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government seeks to cultivate thoughtful and educated citizens by supporting scholarship and education concerning the ideas and institutions of constitutional government.

Recording Available: Judge Kyle Duncan "Free Speech and Legal Education in our Liberal Democracy"

Watch 5th Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan's Friday, March 24 lecture.

Lectures, Debates, & Conversations

Our extensive library of lectures, debates, and conversations are available to view or listen via podcast.

Meet our Scholars

Learn about our scholars and their commitment to the pursuit of truth.


Potenziani Minor in Constitutional Studies

Our undergraduate minor educates Notre Dame students in the enduring principles of constitutional government and ideas and institutions of a free society. Fall 2023 courses now available!