James P. Kelly III

James P. Kelly III

James P. Kelly, III is President of Solidarity Center for Law and Justice, an international human rights law firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2005, he has represented the Washington, DC-based Federalist Society for Law and Public Policies as its Director of International Affairs. He is the also the Founder and Director of the Federalist Society’s Global Governance Watch project, which monitors the impact of global and transnational governance on national sovereignty. From 2005 to 2008, he served as Chairman of the Social and Human Sciences Committee of the US National Commission to UNESCO. In 2005, the National Catholic Register designated his book: Christianity, Democracy, and the American Ideal, as one of the year’s best books.

THE CONSTITUTION AS THE SOUL OF THE NATION

The theme provides us with a great opportunity to examine how constitutional values have brought our countries to where they are today; and, how those values can take us to where we want to go. In large part, this is a metaphysical topic, as the drafting of a constitution is