About
Mission and Principles
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.
The Center aims to explore the fundamental principles and practices of a free society so that citizens and civic leaders are equipped to secure our God-given natural rights, exercise the responsibilities of self-government, and pursue the common good.
The Center aspires to further Notre Dame’s Catholic character and mission by providing a forum where, through free inquiry and reasoned discussion, the Catholic intellectual tradition is brought to bear on enduring and contemporary questions concerning a just constitutional order.
History
Launched in 2021, the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government was founded to unite the Tocqueville Program for Religion in Public Life and the Program in Constitutional Studies. The Tocqueville Program, founded in 2009, seeks to nurture informed conversation, learning and scholarship about the fundamental principles of a decent and just political regime with a particular focus on religious liberty. The Program in Constitutional Studies was founded in 2012 with the purpose of educating Notre Dame students in the enduring principles of constitutional government and ideas and institutions of a free society. Both programs will continue to exist as integral initiatives within the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.
Download 2024-25 CCCG Annual Report
Support our Work
The Center is profoundly grateful for the generosity of its many friends who support its mission. If you are interested in making a gift to support the Center, contact Dr. Donald L. Stelluto, Jr., Co-Director of the CCCG, or click the link below to make your gift directly.