Faculty Scholarship

DR. DAVID E. MARION, ELLIOTT PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

ELLIOTT PROFESSOR of Government and Foreign Affairs David E. Marion, who has been at the College since 1977, has written and lectured extensively in his field of research.

He is the co-author of Founders and the Constitution, published in 2005 by the Bill of Rights Institute, and is the author of “Judicial Faithfulness or Wandering Indulgence? Original Intentions and the History of Marbury v. Madison,” which appeared in the summer 2006 issue of the Alabama Law Review. In the summer of 2005 he spoke at the National Archives on “Our Enduring Constitution: Original Intentions Writ Large.”

He has also had a number of essays appear in newspapers, including “The Judiciary and the War on Terror” (September 5, 2006) and, with his departmental colleague Dr. Roger Barrus, “Remembering John Marshall” (September 2005), both in The Washington Times. In the March 5, 2006, issue of the Richmond Times-Dispatch his essay "Colleges Must Teach 21st Century Literary Skills” was published. An essay on the Twenty-Second Amendment and the 2008 presidential campaign appeared in The Washington Times on June 3, 2007.

For the Bill of Rights Institute, Marion served as academic consultant for Conflict and Continuity: The Story of American Freedom and for Faces of Freedom in American History, both part of Chicago McCormick Museum Instructional Materials; and he was academic advisor for Citizenship and Character: Understanding America’s Civic Values. In July and October of 2006 he lectured at Montpelier, the home of James Madison, first on the Fourteenth Amendment and “Incorporation” at a Center for Civic Education Summer Institute, and later on “Limited Government and Federalism.”

Marion spoke on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Washington administration at a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar held at Mount Vernon in July 2006; and on “The Founders on Civic Education” at the annual conference of the Association of Core Texts and Courses, held in Williamsburg last spring.

At a December 2006 workshop sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education, Marion gave a presentation on “Madisonian Political Philosophy and the Constitution of 1787,” and the following February he gave lectures on the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Civic Education at a workshop for high-school teachers held in Newport News, Virginia.

At the September 2006 national convention of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, Marion served as a discussant on a panel on “The Executive and the Federative Power.” In the summer of 2007 he gave presentations on James Madison and the Federalist Papers at Montpelier, and at the School of Law of George Mason University, he spoke on the Supreme Court’s controversial handling of “liberty interests.”

Marion received his B.A. degree from Saint Anselm’s College, his M.A. from the University of New Hampshire, and his Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University, and he was promoted to the rank of professor in 1990.

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Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
A report by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty