Constitutionalism and Liberty

Anthony D. Bartl is professor in the department of political science and philosophy at Angelo State University.Jordan T. Cash is assistant professor in political theory and constitutional democracy at James Madison College at Michigan State University.

• Gouverneur Morris on the Mixed Regime and Separation of PowersJohn Adams and the Defining of the Federalist PresidencyThe Compromise of 1850: The Senate’s Triumvirate on the Price of UnionRonald Reagan as New Deal ConservativePresident Obama and the Jeffersonian Tradition of Executive PowerExecutive PrivilegesAmerican Political Development and Ideational InstitutionalismPower Struggle: Locke and Montesquieu on Judicial PowerModern Administration and the Integrity of the Article III Judicial PowerThe Myth of the Modern Judiciary“Tender and Sacred Ties”: The Abolitionist Defense of Parental Rights and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth AmendmentsThe Flag and the American ConstellationJames Madison’s Memorial and Remonstrance and the First AmendmentThomas Jefferson on Higher EducationLeo Strauss on the Significance of the Mutability of “Natural Right”Macbeth and Christian RuleMichelangelo’s David and the Florentine Republic

No one acquainted with the scholarship and pedagogy of David Nichols would expect anything other than excellence from the students and colleagues who have benefited from his friendship, guidance, and instruction. Even with those high expectations, however, the essays in this volume are enormously impressive in their insight, their fluency, and their unrivaled command of political philosophy, American political thought, and American constitutional studies. They form a worthy tribute to an inspiring figure and steadfast friend.