Dr. James R. Stoner, Jr., the Herman Moyse, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University, visited Texas State on Friday, April 7th to deliver a talk on “What Donald Trump Understands about the Presidency.” His 45-minute talk sought to situate the presidency of Donald Trump historically and to analyze it in terms of various theoretical models about the presidency. The talk was followed by another 45 minutes of questions and discussion. A wisely published scholar in the area of American constitutionalism, Dr. Stoner’s books include Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes and the Origins of American Constitutionalism (University of Kansas Press, 1992) and Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (University of Kansas Press, 2003).
