The Constitution: Sovereignty & Accountability A Lesson in American Governance An Accuracy in Academia address by Howard Phillips This lecture was given as part of AIA's Conservative University conference held on Saturday, June 18, 2000 at American University. Nineteenth century theologian R.L. Dabney got it right when he observed regarding conservatives, "This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday...