Constituting America’s Sixth 90 Day Study: The Intrigue of Presidential Elections and Their Constitutional Impact
Monday, February 15, 2016
Introduction by Constituting America Founder & Co-Chair, Janine Turner & her daughter, Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Why Was The Electoral College Created? – Tara Ross, author of Enlightened Democracy, the Case for the Electoral College.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Does The Electoral College Still Work? – Tara Ross, author of Enlightened Democracy, the Case for the Electoral College.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
(1789) George Washington: The First Election Under the New Constitution – James D. Best, author of Tempest at Dawn, a novel about the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Principled Action, and the Steve Dancy Tales
Friday, February 19, 2016
(1792) George Washington Sets the Tone for America as Its First Elected President – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Monday, February 22, 2016
(1796) John Adams Defeats Thomas Jefferson – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
(1800) Thomas Jefferson Defeats John Adams: The First Peaceful Transfer of Presidency From One Political Party to Another – Kevin Gutzman, Professor and Chairman, Department of History, Western Connecticut State University and Author, James Madison and the Making of America
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
(1800) The Election Of 1800: Constitutional Implications Of The Alien & Sedition Acts – Tony Williams, Professional Development Instructor, Bill of Rights Institute; Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America
Thursday, February 25, 2016
(1800) Electoral College Tie Between Jefferson and Burr, Throwing an Election Into the House of Representatives for the First Time – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Friday, February 26, 2016
(1804) Thomas Jefferson Defeats Charles Pinckney: The Significance of the 12th Amendment – James Legee, Program Director, The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge; Adjunct Professor, Albright College, PA
Saturday, February 27, 2016
(1804) The Constitutional Significance of the Louisiana Purchase: An Election Issue – Robert McDonald, Professor of American History, United States Military Academy, West Point; Author, Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time (forthcoming)
Monday, February 29, 2016
(1808) James Madison Defeats Charles Pinckney: The Embargo Act of 1807 – Tony Williams, Professional Development Instructor, Bill of Rights Institute; Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
(1812) James Madison Defeats De Witt Clinton: The Issues of a Wartime Election – Sam Agami, History Teacher, Princess Anne Middle School, VA
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
(1816) James Monroe Defeats Rufus King: The Hartford Convention – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Thursday, March 3, 2016
(1816) Constitutional Issues Surrounding the Second Bank of the U. S. – Kyle Scott, Professor of Political Science, University of Houston, TX; Author, The Federalist Papers: A Reader’s Guide
Friday, March 4, 2016
(1820) James Monroe Won Unopposed: The Missouri Compromise – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Monday, March 7, 2016
(1820) McCulloch v. Maryland: A Campaign Issue – Robert Lowry Clinton, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Author, Marbury v. Madison; Judicial Review
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
(1824) John Quincy Adams Defeats Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and William Crawford: Constitutional Implications of the Rise of Party Nominating Conventions and the Empowerment of Popular Votes in Elections – Joe Postell, Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
(1824) The Second Instance of an Election Decided in the House of Representatives – Tony Williams, Professional Development Instructor, Bill of Rights Institute; Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America
Thursday, March 10, 2016
(1828) Andrew Jackson Defeats John Quincy Adams: The Two-Party System – Mark Cheathem, History Professor, Cumberland University, TN
Friday, March 11, 2016
(1828) Controversy Over Andrew Jackson’s War Record and the Question of Civilian Control Over the Military – William Morrisey, William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the United States Constitution at Hillsdale College; Author, Self-Government, The American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War and The Dilemma of Progressivism
Monday, March 14, 2016
(1832) Andrew Jackson Defeats Henry Clay, William Wirt: The Re-Chartering of the Bank of the U.S. – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
(1832) The Anti-Masonic Controversy – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
(1836) Martin Van Buren Defeats William Henry Harrison, Daniel Webster, Hugh White: The Unusual Practice of Running Three Candidates by One Party (the Whigs) in Different Parts of the Country – Lisa Ice-Jones, Administrator, President William Henry Harrison’s Grouseland Mansion and Museum
Thursday, March 17, 2016
(1836) The Tariff Issue and the Constitution – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Friday, March 18, 2016
(1840) William Henry Harrison Defeats Martin Van Buren: The Appeal of Running Military Heroes for President and the Issue of Generalship as a Qualification for Executive Office – Lisa Ice-Jones, Administrator, President William Henry Harrison’s Grouseland Mansion and Museum
Saturday, March 19, 2016
John Tyler (1841-45) excerpt from “Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House,” a Wall Street Journal Book; James Taranto and Leonard Leo, Editors; Free Press, 2004. – John S. Baker, Professor of Law Emeritus, Louisiana State University Law School
Monday, March 21, 2016
(1844) James K. Polk Defeats Henry Clay, James Birney: Texas Annexation as it Related to the Issue of Slavery – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
(1844) The Issue of Oregon Territorial Boundary – Tony Williams, Professional Development Instructor, Bill of Rights Institute; Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
(1848) Zachary Taylor Defeats Martin Van Buren, Lewis Cass: Popular sovereignty in the territories, which was Cass’s issue and which would continue to affect U. S. Constitutional politics for the next decade – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Thursday, March 24, 2016
(1848) Abolitionism and the Constitution – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Friday, March 25, 2016
(1852) Franklin Pierce Defeats Winfield Scott, John Pitale: The Controversy Over the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Monday, March 28, 2016
(1856) James Buchanan Defeats Millard Fillmore, John C. Fremont: The Kansas-Nebraska Act – James D. Best, author of Tempest at Dawn, a novel about the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Principled Action, and the Steve Dancy Tales
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
(1856) The Rise of the Republican Party – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
(1860) Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address and Mathew Brady’s Lincoln Photo: The Making of the President – James D. Best, author of Tempest at Dawn, a novel about the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Principled Action, and the Steve Dancy Tales
Thursday, March 31, 2016
(1860) Abraham Lincoln Defeats Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell: Constitutional Issues Surrounding Secessionism And “The Crisis of the House Divided” – James D. Best, author of Tempest at Dawn, a novel about the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Principled Action, and the Steve Dancy Tales
Friday, April 1, 2016
(1860) Stephen Douglas’s Understanding of the Constitution – David Shestokas, Author, Constitutional Sound Bites; Host, Constitutionally Speaking
Saturday, April 2, 2016
(1860) John C. Breckinridge’s Understanding of the Constitution – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Monday, April 4, 2016
(1860) John Bell’s Understanding of the Constitution – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
(1860) Abraham Lincoln’s Understanding of the Constitution, Part 1: Its Relation to the Declaration of Independence – J. Eric Wise, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York City
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
(1860) Abraham Lincoln’s Understanding of the Constitution, Part 2: The Importance of the Union – David Shestokas, Author, Constitutional Sound Bites; Host, Constitutionally Speaking
Thursday, April 7, 2016
(1864) Abraham Lincoln Defeats George McClellan: Constitutional Issues Raised by Lincoln’s Conduct of the War – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Friday, April 8, 2016
(1864) Holding a Presidential Election During a Civil War – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Monday, April 11, 2016
“Civil War Amendments” to the Constitution – James Legee, Program Director, The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge; Adjunct Professor, Albright College, PA
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
(1868) Ulysses S. Grant Defeats Horatio Seymour: Reconstruction and the Constitution – Forrest Nabors, University of Alaska at Anchorage Professor of Political Science
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
(1868) Constitutional Issues Surrounding Black Suffrage – Forrest Nabors, University of Alaska at Anchorage Professor of Political Science
Thursday, April 14, 2016
(1872) Ulysses S. Grant Defeats Horace Greeley: The Continuing Controversies Over Reconstruction – Forrest Nabors, University of Alaska at Anchorage Professor of Political Science
Friday, April 15, 2016
(1872) Civil Service Reform – Forrest Nabors, University of Alaska at Anchorage Professor of Political Science
Monday, April 18, 2016
(1876) Rutherford B. Hayes Defeats Samuel Tilden: The End of Reconstruction – Forrest Nabors, University of Alaska at Anchorage Professor of Political Science
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
(1876) Rutherford B. Hayes v. Samuel Tilden: Controversy Over Election Returns in This Election – Forrest Nabors, University of Alaska at Anchorage Professor of Political Science
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
(1880) James Garfield Defeats Winfield Scott Hancock: The Tariff Controversy, Post-Civil War – Kirk Higgins, Senior Manager of Education Bill of Rights Institute
Thursday, April 21, 2016
(1884) Grover Cleveland Defeats James G. Blaine: The Issues Surrounding the Furor Stirred by the “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion” Slogan, Regarding Religious Freedom and Anti-Catholic Prejudice – Peter Roff, Advisory Board Member, Constituting America; Contributing Editor, U.S. New and World Report
Friday, April 22, 2016
(1888) Benjamin Harrison Defeats Grover Cleveland: The Constitutional Issues Raised by Cleveland’s Veto of Pension Legislation for Veterans – Brion McClanahan, Author, The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution
Monday, April 25, 2016
Grover Cleveland: Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth President of the United States – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
William McKinley: Twenty-fifth President of the United States – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
(1896) William McKinley Defeats William Jennings Bryan: The Gold Standard vs. Bimetallism – Karl Rove, Former Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush and author of The Triumph of William McKinley, Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters
Thursday, April 28, 2016
(1904) Theodore Roosevelt Defeats Alton Parker: Anti-Trust Legislation – Steven Aden, Senior Counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom
Friday, April 29, 2016
(1904, 1908) Theodore Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” vs. William Jennings Bryan’s Populism – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Monday, May 2, 2016
(1908) William Howard Taft Defeats William Jennings Bryan – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Progressivism and Its Theory of Constitutionalism – Matthew Spalding, Ph.D. – Associate Vice President and Dean of Educational Programs, The Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies & Citizenship, Hillsdale College
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
(1912) Woodrow Wilson Defeats William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Debs: Woodrow Wilson’s “New Freedom” – Tony Williams, Professional Development Instructor, Bill of Rights Institute; Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America
Thursday, May 5, 2016
(1912) Theodore Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism” – William Morrisey, William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the United States Constitution at Hillsdale College; Author, Self-Government, The American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War and The Dilemma of Progressivism
Friday, May 6, 2016
(1912) Eugene Debs’ Socialism and the U. S. Constitution – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Monday, May 9, 2016
(1916) Woodrow Wilson Defeats Charles Evans Hughes – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Warren G. Harding: Twenty-Ninth President of the United States – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
(1920) The Sedition Act and Eugene Debs: Raising of the issue of the “Red Scare” – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Thursday, May 12, 2016
(1924) Calvin Coolidge Defeats Robert M. LaFollette, Burton K. Wheeler (Progressive Party), and John W. Davis: The Direct Election of Presidents – Joe Postell, Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO
Friday, May 13, 2016
Women’s Suffrage and the Impact on Presidential Elections – Rachel Sheffield, Policy Analyst, DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society, The Heritage Foundation
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Herbert Hoover: Thirty-first President of the United States – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Monday, May 16, 2016
(1928) The Effects of Urbanization on the U. S. and Its Implications for Constitutional Government – Scot Faulkner, Former Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives and as a Member of the Reagan White House Staff
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
(1932) Franklin D. Roosevelt Defeats Herbert Hoover: How the Great Depression Threatened Constitutionalism – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
(1932) The “New Deal” – Tony Williams, Professional Development Instructor, Bill of Rights Institute; Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America
Thursday, May 19, 2016
(1936) Franklin D. Roosevelt Defeats Alfred Landon: Administrative Centralization and Its Implications for Constitutionalism – Joerg Knipprath, Constitutional Law Professor, Southwestern Law School, CA
Friday, May 20, 2016
(1936) Supreme Court Opposition to New Deal Laws – Horace Cooper, Legal Commentator; Adjunct Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research
Monday, May 23, 2016
(1940) Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Unprecedented Run for a Third Term – Andrew Bibby, Interim Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Utah Valley University
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
(1944) Franklin D. Roosevelt Defeats Thomas Dewey: Constitutional Implications of Roosevelt’s Liberal Internationalism, United Nations – Tony Williams, Professional Development Instructor, Bill of Rights Institute; Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
(1948) Harry Truman Defeats Thomas Dewey, Strom Thurmond (“Dixiecrat”), Henry Wallace (Progressive Party): “States’ Rights” and Civil Rights Issues Raised by Dixiecrats – William Morrisey, William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the United States Constitution at Hillsdale College; Author, Self-Government, The American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War and The Dilemma of Progressivism
Thursday, May 26, 2016
(1948) Harry Truman: The Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Marshall Plan & The Fair Deal and Civil Rights Reform – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Friday, May 27, 2016
(1952) Dwight D. Eisenhower Defeats Adlai Stevenson: Communism and Civil Liberties – Horace Cooper, Legal Commentator; Adjunct Fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research
Monday, May 30, 2016
A Memorial Day Message – Janine Turner, Constituting America Founder & Co-Chair
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
(1956) Dwight D. Eisenhower Defeats Aldai Stevenson – Jim Legee, Program Director, The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge; Adjunct Professor, Albright College, PA
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
(1960) The Election of the First Catholic President as a Vindication of the First Amendment’s Clauses on Religious Freedom and Religion Establishment – Tony Williams – Professional Development Instructor, Bill of Rights Institute; Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America
Thursday, June 2, 2016
(1964) Lyndon B. Johnson Defeats Barry Goldwater: The “Great Society” and the Constitution – Brion McClanahan, Author, The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution
Friday, June 3, 2016
(1968) Richard Nixon Defeats Hubert Humphrey, George C. Wallace: The Rise of the “New Left” – Steve Knott, Co-author with Bill of Rights Institute’s Tony Williams, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America
Saturday, June 4, 2016
(1968) Supreme Court Decisions on Civil Rights—an Issue Raised by George C. Wallace – Daniel Cotter, Adjunct Professor, The John Marshall Law School; Immediate Past President, The Chicago Bar Association
Monday, June 6, 2016
(1972) Richard Nixon: Thirty-Seventh President of the United States – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
A Different Take on Watergate – John Marini, Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute, California; Fourth book in progress, American Constitutionalism and the Administrative State
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
(1972) Richard Nixon Defeats George McGovern: Watergate – David Kopel, Research Director at the Independence Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Advanced Constitutional Law at Denver University, Sturm College of Law
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Our Constitution Works: President Ford’s Date With Destiny – Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Friday, June 10, 2016
(1976) Jimmy Carter: Thirty-Ninth President of the United States – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Monday, June 13, 2016
(1980) Ronald Reagan Defeats Jimmy Carter, John Anderson: The Critique of the Administrative State – Andrew Langer, President, Institute for Liberty
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
(1984) Ronald Reagan Defeats Walter Mondale: Geraldine Ferraro Nomination as Vice President and the Constitutional Implications of the Feminist Movement – Tony Williams, Professional Development Instructor, Bill of Rights Institute; Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America
Wednesday, June 15 – Thursday, June 16, 2016
(1988) George H.W. Bush Defeats Michael Dukakis – Tony Williams, Professional Development Instructor, Bill of Rights Institute; Author, Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America
Friday, June 17, 2016
(1992) Bill Clinton Defeats George H.W. Bush – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Monday, June 20, 2016
(1992) Bill Clinton Defeats George H.W. Bush – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
(1992) Bill Clinton Defeats George H.W. Bush – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
(1996) Bill Clinton, Presidential Elections, And Constitutional Rule Of Law – Brian Chilton, former University Of Virginia School Of Law Associate Editor & Executive Editor, Virginia Law Review; Author, Issachar’s Heirs
Thursday, June 23, 2016
(2000) George W. Bush Defeats Al Gore, Ralph Nader: A Case Study On Choosing Electors – The Honorable John N. Hostettler, former Congressman from Indiana; Director, The D. James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship; Author of Ordained and Established: A Statesman-Citizen’s Guide to the United States Constitution
Friday, June 23, 2016
(2004) George W. Bush Defeats John Kerry: Terrorism and the Constitution – Andrew Langer – President, Institute for Liberty
Monday, June 27, 2016
(2008) Barack Obama: Forty-Fourth President of the United States – Juliette Turner, author of Our Presidents Rock (Harpers Collins/Zondervan)
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
(2012) Barack Obama Defeats Mitt Romney – Michael Barone, co-author of The Almanac of American Politics and Senior Political Analyst for the Washington Examiner; Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Conclusion: Constitutional Issues in the 2016 Election – William Morrisey, William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the United States Constitution at Hillsdale College; Author, Self-Government, The American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War and The Dilemma of Progressivism
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