Founded in 2000, Research Institute for Hawaii.USA coordinates, sponsors and supports a few select
conferences and educational events in Hawaii, including lectures, symposiums, workshops, public forums
and recognition award presentations. These programs inform our citizens about the role of constitutional
government and its importance in their lives.
RIHi.USA promotes opportunities for renowned scholars and educators to present educational
programs to teachers and students in seminars and symposiums on the constitution and its protections.
“First Amendment Symposium—A Global Perspective” took place in conjunction with a
Constitution Day celebration discussing our first amendment right of free speech. This discussion forum
was especially significant noting that some of the first amendment rights symposium panelists represented
countries in different parts of the world where these rights do not exist.
RIHi.USA sponsors conferences with the Bill of Rights Institute and the Hawai‘i Council for
the Humanities. A two-day conference on constitutional law included a public lecture presented at the
Hawaii Judiciary History Center and a US history teacher’s workshop.
RIHi.USA has, also, promoted and supported a forum to recognize Hawaii’s armed service
veterans. In July of 2006, the Institute began its series of Liberty Award Luncheons. RIHi.USA awarded
US citizens who made outstanding contributions in research discoveries to the preservation of American
History.
Some of these Liberty Awards were given to our brave US veterans who participated in the Hawaii
Veterans History Project. This project, established in partnership with the American Folklife Center
of the Library of Congress, preserves the personal stories and documents of America’s war veterans
for posterity. RIHi.USA acknowledges these heroic stories and their correlation to the United States
Constitution and its historic precedents in the governance of our freedom and democracy.
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