Research
The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government seeks to cultivate thoughtful and educated citizens by supporting research, scholarship, and education on the ideas and institutions of constitutional government.
In pursuit of this goal, the CCCG funds annually faculty research and teaching excellence grants designed to enrich and elevate faculty research projects, classroom instruction, and resulting publications. We welcome applications for these grants from our affiliated faculty in a range of disciplines and fields.
Center-sponsored scholarship
With generous support from benefactors, the CCCG funds the development and publication of significant new works by major authors with the potential to impact disciplines and fields related to American constitutional ideas and institutions, political theory, and American public life.
Sponsored publications are intended to educate, inform, and inspire and they serve a range of audiences in the academy, policymaking, law, jurisprudence, government agencies, and the general public.
As part of its efforts in pursuing these goals, the center partners with the University of Notre Dame Press to publish excellent scholarship on the ideas and institutions of constitutional government.
Recent sponsored publications include the following:
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Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court
Bloomsbury, Second Edition, 2026
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Taking Ends Seriously: Toward Better Deliberation on Rights
Cambridge University Press, 2026
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The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom
Notre Dame Press, 2026
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The Nature of Law
University of Notre Dame Press, 2024
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A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty
University of Kansas, 2022
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From Breakthrough to Blockbuster: The Business of Biotechnology
Oxford University Press, 2022
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Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine's City of God
Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses
University of Chicago Press, 2022
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American Statesmanship: Principles and Practice of Leadership
University of Notre Dame Press, 2021
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The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory: Why We Need the Framers
Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Horizontal Rights: A Republican Vein in Liberal Constitutionalism
Polity, Volume 52, Issue 3, Pages 401-429, July, 2020
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American Constitutional Law, Volume II The Bill of Rights and Subsequent Amendments
Routledge, 11th edition, 2019
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Islamic Law and International Law: Peaceful Resolution of Disputes
Oxford University Press, 2019
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What Justices Want: Goals and Personality on the U.S. Supreme Court
Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Why Liberalism Failed
Yale University Press, 2018
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Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents
Rowman & Littlefield, revised, 2015
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God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson
Cambridge University Press, 2009