Joseph M. Bessette, Ph.D.

By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed:  A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment, with Edward Feser (Ignatius Press, 2017)

“The Imperial Executive in Constitutional Democracy: Exploring the Powers-Duties Distinction” in The Imperial Presidency and the Constitution (Lexington Books, 2017)

American Government and Politics: Deliberation, Democracy, and Citizenship, with John J. Pitney (Cengage/Wadsworth, 2013), Second Edition

The Constitutional Presidency, ed. Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)

“The Powers and Duties of the President: Recovering the Logic and Meaning of Article II” (with Gary J. Schmitt) in The Constitutional Presidency

“Confronting War: Rethinking Justice Robert Jackson’s Concurrence in Youngstown v. Sawyer” in The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, ed. Stephen Macedo and Jeffrey K. Tulis (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2010)

The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)

“In Pursuit of Criminal Justice,” The Public Interest, No. 129 (Fall 1997)

Toward a More Perfect Union: The Writings of Herbert J. Storing, ed. Joseph M. Bessette (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1995)

The Presidency in the Constitutional Order: An Historical Examination, edited with Jeffrey Tulis (Transaction Publishers, 2010)

“Deliberative Democracy: The Majority Principle in Republican Government,” in How Democratic is the Constitution?, ed. Robert Goldwin and William Shambra (American Enterprise Institute, 1981)