Jeremy Bailey is Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School. Bailey is a scholar of American political thought and constitutional development, especially the political thought of the early republic (especially Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson) as well as constitutional controversies concerning executive power. In addition to several books, his scholarship has been published in American Political Science Review, History of Political Thought, Review of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, American Political Thought, American Politics Research, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Publius, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Critical Review. With Susan McWilliams Barndt, Bailey is editor of the American Political Thought book series published by University Press of Kansas.
Bailey is completing a second book on Thomas Jefferson’s political thought, Thomas Jefferson and the Language of American Democracy. This book considers the other declarations by Thomas Jefferson, with emphasis on press liberty, Native nations and assimilation, and antislavery. With Alan Gibson, Bailey is editing a two-volume edition of James Madison’s political writings for Cambridge University Press.
“Tocqueville on the Federal Constitution,” in Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America, ed. Richard Boyd. (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 306-26.
“Federal Judges as a Source of Federal Authority in Federalist No. 39″ in ¨From Reflection and Choice: The Political Philosophy of the Federalist Papers and the Ratification Debate, edited by Will R. Jordan (Mercer University Press, 2020), 68-80.
“Jefferson’s Executive: More Responsible, More Unitary, and Less Stable,” in Extra-Legal Power and Legitimacy: Perspectives on Prerogative, ed. Clement Fatovic and Benjamin Kleinerman (Oxford University Press, 2013), 117-137.
“Nature and Nature’s God in the Notes on the State of Virginia,” in Enlightenment and Secularism: Essays on the Mobilization of Reason, ed. Christopher Nadon, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), 231-40.
“From ‘floating ardor’ to the ‘union of sentiment’: Jefferson on the Relationship between Public Opinion and the Executive,” A Companion to Thomas Jefferson, ed. Francis Cogliano (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 184-98.
“The Revolution of 1800,” in A History of the U.S. Political System: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions, ed. Richard A. Harris and Daniel J. Tichenor (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio, 2009), 66-77.
“Jaffa’s Douglas,” in American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture, 12 (2023): 182-191. Part of a symposium, “Harry’s Jaffa’s Crisis at 65.”
“Decision, Activity, Secrecy, and Dispatch: The Intellectual Origins of Hamilton’s Federalist No. 70,” History of Political Thought. 42 (2021): 318-341.With Haimo Li.
“Populism and Presidential Representation,” Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 31 (2019): 267-277.
“It’s the War Power, Again.” Review essay on war powers for Tulsa Law Review 50 (2015): 649-58.
“Reexamining the Use of Unilateral Orders: Source of Authority and the Power to Act Alone,” American Politics Research. 42 (2014): 472-502. With Brandon Rottinghaus.
“Opposition to the Theory of Presidential Representation: Federalists, Whigs, and Democrats,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 44 (2014): 50-71. Special edition, Rethinking Presidential Studies through Historical Research, edited by Bruce Miroff and Stephen Skowronek.
“The Development of Unilateral Power and the Problem of the Power to Warn: Washington through McKinley,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 43 (2013): 186-204. With Brandon Rottinghaus.
“Should We Venerate That Which We Cannot Love?: James Madison on Constitutional Imperfection,” Political Research Quarterly 65 (2012): 732-44.
“Was James Madison ever for the bill of rights?” Perspectives on Political Science 41 (2012): 59-66.
“The Traditional View of Hamilton’s Federalist No. 77 and an Unexpected Challenge: A Response to Seth Barrett Tillman,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 33 ( 2010): 169-84.
“The New Unitary Executive and Democratic Theory: The Problem of Alexander Hamilton,” American Political Science Review 102 (2008): 453-65.
“Constitutionalism, Conflict, and Consent: Jefferson on the Impeachment Power,” Review of Politics 70 (2008): 572-94.
“Executive Prerogative and the ‘good officer’ in Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to John B. Colvin,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 34 (2004): 732-754.
“Richard Weaver’s Untraditional Case for Federalism,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 34: 4 (2004): 33-50.
