James Madison on the Courts’ Constitutional Authority

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James Madison’s View of Constitutional Interpretation

 

On March 9, 2018 JMC fellow Greg Weiner visited JMC’s partner program at Harvard, the Program on Constitutional Government. He gave a talk exploring James Madison’s view of the Constitution, judicial prerogative, and legislative authority.

Watch the lecture below:

 

 

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Greg Weiner is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of Madison’s Metronome: The Constitution, Majority Rule and the Tempo of American Politics and American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Monynihan (University Press of Kansas). He received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from Georgetown University.

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