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Wisdom and Consent

Peoria is remembered for the speech Abraham Lincoln gave there in 1854. This act of statesmanship began the greatest struggle in American history to bring wisdom together with consent—the struggle for a new birth of freedom in a land devoted to freedom but shackled to slavery. The Peoria Project sponsors and cultivates the continuing search for the wisdom that deserves consent.

Christopher Flannery

Christopher Flannery is a director of the Peoria Project. He is a professor in the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California, and a senior editor of the Claremont Review of Books.

David Tucker

David Tucker is a director of the Peoria Project. He is a Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center, Ashland, Ohio.