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.
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Potenziani Minor in Constitutional Studies
The core mission of the Center is to educate, mentor, and support students during their academic careers at Notre Dame and beyond. In the classroom, we teach students the principles of constitutional government, the American political tradition, U.S. constitutional law, comparative constitutionalism, and more. Building on courses across the College of Arts & Letters, the Potenziani Minor in Constitutional Studies is designed to encourage students to confront fundamental questions concerning justice, the rule of law, and human flourishing.
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South Bend Tribune
Photos: United States Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh speaks at Notre Dame on 9/11 anniversary
September 11, 2026
The Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government hosted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh alongside university leadership and distinguished panelists for the Jeanie Poole O'Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture. Moderated by CCG Director Vincent Phillip Muñoz, the panel reflected on their personal experiences during the 2001 attacks, the enduring lessons of American civic unity, and the responsibility of younger generations to remember and serve.
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WVPE
Kavanaugh returns to ND for Sept. 11 25 years later panel talk
September 01, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will join a private Notre Dame panel on September 11 to reflect on personal experiences from 9/11 and its lasting legacy, with the event livestreamed on YouTube. They’ll share their personal experiences from Sept. 11, 2001 when terrorists flew airliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and they’ll discuss its legacy. Leading the talk will be Vincent Phillip Munoz, director of Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.
