Constitution Day at the Byrd Center

The 18th Annual Tom E. Moses Memorial Lecture on the United States Constitution will be held on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7:00 pm. Our speaker will be distinguished scholar Norman Ornstein, Emeritus Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and nationally-known scholar on the United States Congress. His topic will be “Threats to American Democracy and the Constitution.” 

Norman J. Ornstein is a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he has been studying politics, elections, and the US Congress for more than four decades. Along with Thomas Mann and Michael Malbin, he created “Vital Statistics on Congress” in 1980, a go-to-reference guide that provides impartial data for congressional watchers, and is updated every two years. He is also a longtime participant of AEI’s Election Watch series and an adviser to the Continuity of Government Commission.
The lecture will be held in the Byrd Center's auditorium and will also be live-streamed through Zoom. Click below to reserve your seat or to register to receive a Zoom link for the 2022 Constitution Day lecture featuring Norman Ornstein. ​For those attending in-person, masking will be required for the safety of our speakers and attendees. 

About the Moses Memorial Lecture

The Moses Memorial Lecture is named for the late Tom E. Moses, a longtime civil libertarian, activist, and founder of the Eastern Panhandle branch of the ACLU-WV.  The inaugural Moses Lecture was given by Senator Robert C. Byrd in 2005. You can view videos of some of our past Moses Memorial Lecture on the Byrd Center YouTube Channel >>

Past Constitution Day Speakers:
2005: Senator Robert C. Byrd
2006: Joseph Onek
2007: Anthony Williams
2008: Dr. Donald A. Ritchie
2009: David Cole
​2010: Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia and Bob Edgar
​2011: Richard Dreyfuss
2012: Dr. Michael Austin
2013: Dr. Raymond Smock
2014: Clay Risen
2015: Dr. Ralph Young
2016: Dr. Elizabeth Hinton
​2017: Ganesh Sitaraman
2018: Senator Tom Harkin
2019: Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld
​2020: Dr. Sabina Dent
​2021: Dr. Ray Smock