The Second Annual Constitutional Institute at George Washington's Mount Vernon Seminar Materials
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Session 1
Dividing and Choosing: Checks and Balances and the Foundation of
Constitutional Liberty
Douglas Bradburn
Dividing our Royal Inheritance: The Supreme Court, the President, and the
Prerogative power in the Early Republic
Kate Brown
A Republican Monarch of Sorts: Federalist Concepts of Executive
Authority
Edward Larson
Session 2
Executive Power in the Early Republic: Law vs. Opinion
Jeremy Bailey
Session 3
Today 's Imperial Executive: When Presidents or Governors Do It, That
Means It Is Not Illegal (From Nixon to Obama, Plus McDonnell and McAuliffe.)
John Dean
Session 4
Panel Discussion Regarding Executive Orders and Actions in the
21st Century
Jeremy D. Bailey, Ph.D., University of Houston
Douglas Bradburn, Ph.D, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington
Kate Brown, Ph.D., Huntington University
Hon. Kenneth Thomas "Ken" Cuccinelli II, J.D., Former Attorney General of Virginia
John W. Dean, J.D., Former Nixon White House Counsel
Michael S. Greve, Ph.D., George Mason University
Edward J. Larson, Ph.D., J.D., Pepperdine University
Ilya Somin, J.D., George Mason University