Constitutional Crisis Could Result in Loss of People’s Sovereignty, Says Hillsdale College President


Wednesday, December 10, 2008
By Kevin Mooney, Staff Writer




Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn(CNSNews.com) - A new political party devoted to the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution is needed to help restore representative government at a time when the people’s sovereignty, their title to rule, is in danger of being lost, Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, said Friday at the Heritage Foundation.

Under the guise of education, academic elites have been engaged in social engineering that is at odds with the American principles of limited government and individual liberty, Arnn said at the conservative think tank.

Arnn was particularly critical of the founding document of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and encouraged audience members to examine key phrases that focus on the concept of “social evolution,â€