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In this hour-long talk held in the library’s lower level Meeting Room, we will consider the Framers’ intentions for how the three branches of the U.S. government would function and explore the history of how many of their hopes and plans were put into practice. We will consider all three branches of the national government – Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court – in terms of their design and how they function today. We will discuss whether reforms are needed and, if so, whether reforms are possible.
Ian J. Drake teaches in the Political Science and Law Department at Montclair State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Maryland and his law degree from the University of Richmond. His teaching interests include the American judiciary and legal system, the U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional history, the history and contemporary study of law and society, broadly construed, and political theory.
