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“Economic Liberty and the Constitution”
An Online Town Hall April 16, 2011

The erosion of private property rights, a prodigious federal debt, and a nearly incomprehensible tax code
are all part of an overweening administrative state that today threatens the liberty of all Americans. Join
Hillsdale College for an “Online Town Hall” where together we seek a path back to the Constitution.

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. “Choosing Liberty”: Welcome and Introduction

EDT The Honorable Mike Pence, U.S. Representative, Sixth District of Indiana

Today citizens must choose whether they will live as citizens, or subjects.

10:15 – 11:15 a.m. “How Our Economic Liberty Has Been Diminished”

EDT Dr. Paul Moreno, Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History, Hillsdale College

Economic liberty was revered by the Founding Fathers, who enshrined its principles in the Constitution. A hundred years ago, those tenets were attacked by the Progressives, who saw property rights as the protection of special interests, and our Constitution’s structure as an impediment to progress as they defined it.

11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Break
EDT
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. “How Our Economic Liberty Can Be Restored

EDT Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale College
Economic liberty can be restored as decisively as it has been lost, but a restoration of constitutional principles cannot happen without citizen understanding and vigilant defense of the principles of the Declaration of
Independence and Constitution.

Larry P. Arnn is the twelfth president of Hillsdale College. He received his B.A. from Arkansas State University,

and his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School. Formerly the director of research for
Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, at Worcester College, Oxford University, Dr. Arnn
was from 1985-2000 president of the Claremont Institute. He is the author of Liberty and Learning: The Evolution
of American Education.

Paul Moreno, the Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History, Associate Professor of History, Kirby Center Senior
Fellow, and Dean of Faculty at Hillsdale College, earned his B.A. and M.A. at the State University of New York at
Albany, and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland at College Park. A James Madison Fellow at
Princeton University in 2005-2006, his most recent book is Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History.

The Honorable Mike Pence, a lifelong Hoosier, represents the sixth congressional district of Indiana. A national
advocate for limited government, he has opposed bailouts,
government takeovers, and runaway federal spending
throughout his six terms in Congress. Formerly the House Republican Conference Chairman, he was, prior to his
election to Congress 2000, president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation. Congressman Pence received a B.A.
from Hanover College, and a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law.