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426 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. vii (1976)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0426 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE Two years ago the board of the Academy supported Walter Phillips's suggestion that the Academy should plan something to celebrate the Bicentennial in 1976. Our editor, Richard Lambert, recommended in a first written draft that we consider a Constitutional Conference. After several drafts on which we both worked, with helpful suggestions from the board and later our formal organizing committee, a firm proposal was filed with the Philadelphia Bicentennial Commission. Meanwhile, the Sun Oil Company, also seeking to celebrate the Bicen- tennial in various ways, discovered our proposal and approached me to deternine whether the mutual interests of our two organizations could be merged. The Bicentennial Committee of Sun agreed to the funding of our proposal and the board of the Academy accepted the offer. The president and chairman of the Sun Company at that time, Robert Sharbaugh, Vice-Chairman Robert Donahue, and Dean Chaapel, were most generous with their time and consultations on the planning of the conference. With help and no hindrance, with encouragement and no impediment, the Sun Company made possible this enterprise and will always be remembered with deep gratitude by the Academy as the facilitator and benefactor of a most successful Bicentennial Constitutional Con- ference. Much of that success was due to the months of work performed by the organizing committee. My co-chairman, Richard Lambert, and the other members of the committee helped to formulate the major themes, to select the participants, and to provide constant guidance. They were: Lee Benson, Professor of History of the American Peoples, University of Pennsylvania Joseph S. Clark, former U.S. Senator, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Judge, U.S. District Court, Philadelphia Covey T. Oliver, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Louis H. Pollak, Dean and Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations and Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School Henry W. Sawyer, III, Partner, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia As conference chairman, Herbert Wechsler, Professor of Law, Columbia University, and Director of the American Law Institute, steered our movements early on and provided focus for our preliminary thoughts. The late Senior Judge William H. Hastie of the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals helped me in the ceremony to open the con- ference formally in Independence Hall. Dean Louis H. Pollak gave us his sterling keynote speech that set the tone for the high caliber of subsequent discussions at the committee meetings. After the first plenary session on April 5, 1976, at the Hall of the American Philosophical Society, the 90 participants met in four separate simultaneously sitting committees. A previously distributed keynote paper was presented to each committee to provide background facts vii

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