Article V: America’s Hidden Constitutional Crisis

Please join ACS and the co-sponsoring organizations below for a nonpartisan and free town hall program about the threat of an imminent call by the states for a new Constitutional Convention under Article V and its potential dramatic impact on personal and civil rights, business, state and local government, agriculture, education, healthcare, manufacturing, national security, and more.

ACS President Russ Feingold will speak about his co-authored book on the subject The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It.

A panel discussion will follow, featuring Prof. Ron Lee, Ph.D. (Rockford University), Prof. Evan Bernick (Northern Illinois University College of Law), Dean Joseph D.Kearney (Marquette Law School), and Prof. Carolyn Shapiro (IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law).*

ACS is grateful to the co-sponsors of this event:

Institute of Public Policy and World Affairs at Rockford University

Marquette University School of Law

Northern Illinois University School of Law

Rockford (IL) Public Library

Greater Rockford Chamber of Commerce

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 7:00 PM CT

Regent's Hall, Burpee Building

Rockford University, 5050 E State Street, Rockford, IL 61108

The event will be livestreamed on the Rockford University - YouTube page.

*2/25/25 Update. Professor Carolyn Shapiro (IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law) can no longer attend the program.