"Conversations on the Constitution: Due Process and Equal Protection" Oct. 14 (W) at 3:30pm

[Daniel Lake]

*The Institute for Ethics in Public Life invites you to join us for
"Conversations on the Constitution: Due Process and Equal Protection," at
3:30pm on Wednesday, Oct. 14 (in person or on Zoom), with special guest Dr.
Ray Carman, Assoc. Prof. and Chair of Political Science.*



The Constitution is the founding document of US democracy, yet most of us
have probably not read it or thought much about what it says or why.
Understanding how our government was supposed to function, and why the
founders set it up that way is particularly important in the current era
due to the battles over government powers playing out in the courts and
society.

For the sixth of the "conversations on the Constitution" hosted at the
Institute this year we will be discussing due process and equal protection
rights, particularly as they pertain to civil rights. The due process
clause was included in the 5th Amendment
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment5.html&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1791985813845675&usg=AOvVaw1t3aHY4ULNXuCQ3Iu6L1yP>,
and extended to the states by the 14th Amendment
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/amendment-xiv/clauses/701&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1791985813845675&usg=AOvVaw3gwmpuo4GpAv6ZoImCAI2->
(which
also contains the Equal Protection Clause
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xiv/clauses/702%23the-equal-protection-clause&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1791985813845675&usg=AOvVaw0punJ2fvzLfrTriJ6sBRtz>).
These are particularly important areas of constitutional law right now, due
to the actions of the Trump administration and some of the decisions by the
Roberts court.

Dr. Raymond V. Carman, Jr., is Assoc. Prof. and Chair of Political Science.
He teaches courses on public law, constitutional law, civil rights and
liberties, legal research and writing, and judicial politics. He is the
author of *Making Good Law or Good Policy?: The Causes and Effects of State
Supreme Court Judges’ Role Orientations *(Springer 2017).

Please join us in person in the Thomas Moran Seminar Room of the Institute
for Ethics in Public Life (Hawkins 233) or on Zoom (see below).

Topic: Equal Protection and Due Process

Time: Oct 14, 2026 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)


Join Zoom Meeting
https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/89912420443


*Institute events are posted to the Institute's public calendar here
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y19sa245c3MxcjdscjExdmM0ZzNtMDlyaDUyb0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t>.*


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*Daniel Lake*

(pronouns: he/him/his)

Professor of Political Science

Director, Institute for Ethics in Public Life

Hawkins 149A

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