Presented by Professor Michael Nelson, Rhodes College.

Dr. Nelson’s lecture will explore how George Washington, as the nation’s first president, took on the challenge of transforming words on parchment (many of them somewhat broad) into actual conduct of the office of the presidency, all for the purpose of establishing the legitimacy of the new Constitution.

Michael Nelson is the Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College, a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, and Senior Contributing Editor and Book Editor of the Cook Political Report. According to a Hauenstein Center survey of college courses on the American presidency, two of Nelson’s books on the presidency rank among the top five most frequently studied: The Presidency and the Political System (first) and The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2015, with Sidney M. Milkis (fifth).

This public lecture is sponsored by the Constitutional Studies Forum of the UNO Department of Political Science.