Arizona America250 Events Calendar
Explore our Arizona America250 Events Calendar, your hub for commemorating America’s 250th anniversary in Arizona. This calendar highlights both signature events hosted by Arizona America250 and community-led events taking place across the state.
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Founding Values: Citizen Control with General H.R. McMaster
April 28 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Founding Values is an event series designed for ASU and the surrounding community to distance ourselves from partisan politics and reflect on the values represented in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
The semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, offers us a unique and timely opportunity to ask if we are upholding those values, and what we can do as a community to protect those values—if we think that they ought to be protected.
This event will feature a keynote lecture by General McMaster focused on the founding value of civilian control of the military. Following the lecture, a cadet-moderated conversation will take place, applying those lessons to today’s civil-military challenges, including political polarization, social-media pressures on apolitical service, the domestic use of forces, and the citizen-soldier ideal.