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Jamal Greene Reconsiders the American Founding at 2026 Montgomery Foundation Lecture
May 4, 2026
At Southwestern Law School’s 2026 Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Foundation Lecture, Columbia Law Professor Jamal Greene offered a sweeping challenge to one of the country’s most enduring constitutional myths: that the United States became a true republic in 1787 and that later generations have merely been tasked with preserving it.
It did not, Greene argued.
