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Trump 2.0 and the Survival of the American Constitutional System via Zoom & Open to All
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Trump 2.0 and the Survival of the American Constitutional System
Tuesday, April 22
4:00-5:00 pm via Zoom
Open to Everyone
Our speaker is Michael L. Mezey, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at DePaul University in Chicago, and author of five books. Michael is a resident of Friendship Heights and an FHNN volunteer.
He will discuss how the general understanding of the constitutional arrangement of shared powers between the President and the Congress has, he believes, been challenged during the early months of the second Trump Administration. Dr. Mezey also believes that Trump’s assertion of executive power exploits the ambiguities in the constitutional design of the presidency, exposes the fragility of the checks on executive tyranny that the Founders believed that they had created, and calls into question the commitment of the American people to our constitutional system.
This is an FHNN event, open to everyone, as part of our collaboration with Little Falls Village. Use the Register Now button. FHNN Members or Volunteers who need help registering can email information.fhnn@gmail.com with Constitutional in the subject line. The link will be sent several days before the program.
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Michael L. Mezey is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at DePaul University in Chicago. He earned his B.A. from the College of the City of New York and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Syracuse University. He served on the faculties of the University of Virginia and the University of Hawaii before joining DePaul University's faculty in 1977 as chair of the Political Science Department. From 1993 thru 2005, Dr. Mezey served as Dean of DePaul’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is the author of five books: Comparative Legislatures (Duke University Press, 1979), Congress, the President, and Public Policy (Westview Press, 1989), Representative Democracy: Legislators and their Constituents (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), Presidentialism: Power in Comparative Perspective (Lynne Rienner, 2013), and (S)electing the President: The Perils of Democracy (Routledge, 2018). He is a co-editor of Parliaments and Public Policy, (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Distributive Politics in Developing Countries: Almost Pork, (Lexington Books, 2014), and Legislative Decline in the 21st Century: A Comparative Perspective. (Routledge, 2020). He is the author of more than 50 additional book chapters and scholarly articles and papers.
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