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October 12, 2006
The Third Annual
Sebastian J. Raciti Memorial Lecture and Dinner

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, guest speaker
His talk is entitled "The Assault on Constitutional Liberties."

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano joined FOX News Channel in January 1998, and currently serves as a senior judicial analyst. He appears daily on The Big Story, co-hosts FOX and Friends once a week and is a regular on The O’Reilly Factor. Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court Judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. While on the bench from 1987-95, Judge Napolitano tried over 150 jury trials, and sat in all parts of the Superior Court — Criminal, Civil, Equity and Family.

For eleven years, Napolitano served as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law School, where he taught constitutional law and jurisprudence. He returned to private law practice in 1995, the same year he began his career in broadcasting.

Napolitano received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Notre Dame.

In his latest book, Judge Napolitano explains how lawmakers have hijacked the Constitution and have improperly expanded their own authority by intentionally misinterpreting key sections of the nation's founding governing document, especially the General Welfare Clause and the Commerce Clause. Over the years lawmakers have used these provisions to create vast new areas of federal power, in areas of human behavior the Constitution has reserved to the states or to individuals, free from any government regulation.

Judge Napoltiano's lecture will address his concern that the American people's financial privacy – a key component of our nation's founding philosophy – is under relentless attack by all levels of government.

He is the author of Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks its Own Rules, and Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land.

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