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The Constitution Can Unify America, Levin Says at SPN Annual Meeting

ORLANDO, Fla.—In his keynote address at State Policy Network’s Annual Meeting this week, Israeli American journalist and constitutional studies expert Yuval Levin said that the U.S. Constitution once united our nation—and perhaps, surprisingly, might do so again.

Hot topics at this year’s gathering ranged from data centers and artificial intelligence in health care to school choice, federalism, and building freedom movements in states.

But one topic discussed at the event didn’t address some new technology or policy idea, but instead a very old one: “Can the Constitution Unify Americans?”

“The American Constitution is ultimately a framework for national unity, for a kind of cohesion,” Levin, the American Enterprise Institute’s director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies, told the audience.

Levin, a former White House domestic policy staff member under George W. Bush and former executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics, noted that it often seems like the Constitution is “more a source of our division than an answer to it.”

“We tend to associate the Constitution now with a lot of the problems at this moment,” he said. He added that the division facing America today is, in some........

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