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2025 Constitution Day Lecture

Nicholas Jacobs, Colby College

2025 Constitution Day Lecture

2025 Constitution Day Lecture

Nicholas F. Jacobs
Associate Professor of Government
Colby College

Wednesday, September 17
3:30 PM
Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall

Can One Person Save–or Break–a Republic? The Rise of the Presidency-Centered Government

We live in a time when every national issue seems to come back to one office: the presidency. But was the U.S. Constitution ever meant to work this way? This talk explores how the American president became the center of our political system — and why that’s a problem. Drawing on decades of political and constitutional change, we’ll look beyond any one leader to ask a bigger question: what happens to democracy when we place too much power, hope, and blame in the hands of a single person?

Hill Auditorium at the University of Maine
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM on Wed, 17 Sep 2025

Event Supported By

University of Maine, Department of Political Science
207 581 1871
polisci@maine.edu

Artist Group Info

Nicholas F. Jacobs
nfjacobs@colby.edu
Hill Auditorium at the University of Maine
165 Barrows Hall
Orono, Maine