Civic Thought and Leadership: A Higher Civics to Sustain American Constitutional Democracy

Author:

Carrese Paul O.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

Abstract

Multiple civic crises facing American constitutional democracy—deepening political polarization and dysfunction, loss of confidence in major institutions and professions, and collapse of confidence in higher education—can be simultaneously redressed by restoring traditional civic education in universities and colleges. A nascent national reform in public universities, establishing departments of civic thought and leadership, reintroduces a blend of classical liberal arts and American civic education. This restores a core mission of truth-seeking and Socratic debate to universities, while providing the higher civics needed to perpetuate the American legal and constitutional order through non-partisan, non-ideological preparation of thoughtful citizens and leaders with the necessary civic knowledge and civic virtues, including commitment to the rule of law and American constitutionalism.

Publisher

MDPI AG

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