University of Houston Professor to Give Constitution Day Talk

Jeremy Bailey, assistant professor of political science at the University of Houston, will give a talk titled “Mr. Jefferson's Constitution” on Friday, Sept. 9 at 4:30 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross.  The event, sponsored by the political science department and the Charles Carroll Program, is part of the College’s recognition of Constitution Day on September 17, 2011 (observed September 16, 2011).  

Bailey’s talk will be followed by a roundtable discussion with Donald Brand, professor of political science at Holy Cross; and Benjamin Kleinerman, assistant professor of political science at Michigan State University’s James Madison College, who is also giving a lecture titled “Judicial Supremacy and the Politics of the Constitution” on September 8 at 4:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of La Maison at Assumption College.

All events are free and open to the public

Bailey, the author of Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power (Cambridge University Press, 2007), has a joint appointment in political science and The Honors College. He received his B.A. from Rhodes College and Ph.D. from Boston College. He is currently working on a book titled The Removal Power: Dilemmas in American Constitutional Development.

Kleinerman is the author The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power (Kansas, 2009). He earned his B.A. from Kenyon College and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University.  A former Visiting Scholar in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University, Kleinerman has also taught at Oberlin College and the Virginia Military Institute.