Students Head Minnesota Leadership School

Student leaders from the University of Minnesota headed our Minneapolis leadership School backed by students from Hamline University and Meadow Creek Christian School and interns from our cosponsor Center of the American Experiment and the Republican Party of Minnesota.

The Federalist leadership Center schools are based upon the principle that true leadership must rest upon philosophical understanding, specifi cally upon the federalist thinking of America’s founders. Th e United States can only be successful if these principles—illustrated best by its greatest founding writing, The Federalist Papers--are as viable and central to its leaders and citizens today as they were at the nation’s birth.

To make these ideals concrete to our students, syndicated writer and Fox television commentator Robert Novak spoke at a luncheon that was also open to the adult community about how Federalist principles are related to current events in Washington, D.C., a city he has covered in depth for over a half century.

The luncheon was attended by students and local notables including Ronald Schutz, Chairman of the Board of the Center for the American Experiment. Michael Vekich, Keith Johnson, Thomas Kordonowy, Lee Frankmann, James van Houten, Mara Robinson, Douglas Barr, Gina Paulucci, Rep. Sonja Erickson, President of the Center of the American Experiment, Mitch Pearlstein and a full room of representatives of the Minneapolis-St. Paul community. Student leader Heidi Flaten from Hamline University expressed the feelings of all. “The Federalist Leadership School was very interesting and eye-opening. I learned a lot that I could not have learned in any other setting.”