Dr. Brogdon’s scholarship examines American constitutionalism with special attention to the federal judiciary. He has published on the constitutional origins of judicial federalism and the development of the federal courts, among other topics. His work on the constitutional debate over inferior courts in the First Congress was named Article of the Year by the American Political Thought section of the American Political Science Association.
Constitutional Foundations of the Modern Judiciary: Recovering the Institutional Logic and Structural Integrity of Article III. Under contract with University of Missouri Press, Studies in Constitutional Democracy series.
"Political Jurisprudence and the Role of the Supreme Court: Framing the Judicial Power in the Federal Convention of 1787,”American Political Thought 6, no. 2 (2017): 171-200.
Text and Institutional Development: Contesting the Madisonian Compromise in the First Congress,”American Political Thought 5, no. 2 (2016): 219-249.
the Union: Andrew Jackson’s Nullification Proclamation and American Federalism,”Review of Politics 73, no. 2 (2011): 245-27.
Constitutionalism and Judicial Independence,”
in Readings in American Government, 9th ed., ed. Mary P. Nichols and David K. Nichols (Kendall Hunt, 2013), 329-40
of The Contested Removal Power, 1789-2010, by J. David Alvis, Jeremy D. Bailey, and F. Flagg Taylor IV,Political Science Quarterly 129, no. 4 (2014): 738-39
Dr. Bibby has published in various outlets, including The Wall Street Journal. He has taught classes in classical and modern political philosophy, American literature, and American political thought. He has research interests in modern political theory, political economy, and American federalism. He is the author of Montesquieu's Political Economy and co-editor of Rival Visions: How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic.
Bibby, A. S. 2016. Montesquieu’s Political Economy. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
Dr. Lewis researches and writes about American political thought, institutions, and development. His writing has been published by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, among others. He teaches courses on American politics, the U.S. Constitution, American political thought, and American political institutions. He earned graduate degrees from Cambridge University and the University of Virginia, and has held academic fellowships at Stanford University and Harvard University.
The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).
Ideas of Power: The Politics of American Party Ideology Development(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
“Aristocracy, Democracy, and Liberalism: Using the Tocquevillean Dichotomy to Understand Modern Liberalism,” Perspectives on Political Science (July 2021), 51(1), 15-23.
“The Problem of Donald Trump and the Static Spectrum Fallacy,” Party Politics (July 2021), 27(4), 605-618.
“Foundational Ideas in the Political Thought of F. A. Hayek,” The Political Science Reviewer (April 2021), 45(1), 107-126.
"Party Control of Government and American Party Ideology Development," Studies in American Political Development (September 2018), 32(2), 188-216.
“The President and the Parties’ Ideologies: Party Ideas about Foreign Policy Since 1900,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (March 2017), 47(1), 27-61.
“This President’s Day, We Should Remember Washington’s Farewell Address,” Deseret News (20 February 2023).
“The Myth of Ideological Polarization,” The Wall Street Journal (18-19 June 2022), A11.
“Why Presidential Candidates Campaign as Isolationists but Govern as Hawks,” The Washington Post (18 April 2017).
Robert John Burton is the director of the Civic Thought and Leadership Initiative at UVU's Center for Constitutional Studies. His research and teaching occur in the fields of constitutional law, American political thought, and political philosophy, focusing on civic education, the First Amendment, and the relationship between conscience and politics.
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