The Elliot Conference Analysis

The Elliot Conference was filled to the brim with scholars and thinkers, alike. Each one of them came with intriguing points of view on some of the greatest, and most historic, writers of our time. The theme for this conference was 1776. The importance of that year to the world, not just America. In the two days of the conference, students and professors critiqued and interpreted works of several different writer’s works. They presented essays that gave the listeners a glimpse into the minds of these great thinkers. A common theme in the essays presented were how governments form and how they keep themselves running. They spoke about ways governments are founded, what policies are made to form the legislator initially, and how to the future generations interpreted the work. …show more content…
This makes sense for the topic of 1776. Student speaker Samuel Moses explained the ideas of climate and topography’s effect on politics. He says that different governments for based on how the land has shaped the people living in that area. Amazingly he connected the ground beneath our feet to the government and laws. A scholar from The Citadel, Scott Segrest, compared the French revolution and the American. He broke down the differences in the origins, and brought to light why the American Revolution had a more profound impact. There were, also, speakers who spoke about ways to keep the government in check. For example, Maurilia Oldham, spoke about Adam’s smith invisible hand, and how that keeps society in check. Anna Bates spoke about man’s ability to judge regimes and to critique them. This important for how we view the government as a whole, and the citizens in the