Profs & Pints DC: George Washington and Executive Power

Profs and Pints DC presents: “George Washington and Executive Power,” a fresh assessment of our first president’s approach to his own authority, with Denver Brunsman, associate professor and chair of the history department at George Washington University and scholar of the American Revolution and early American republic.

If it’s Presidents’ Day it’s time for historian Denver Brunsman, a Profs and Pints fan favorite, to give his annual talk on our nation’s founders.

This year Professor Brunsman will devote his eighth annual Presidents’ Day talk to exploring one of the pressing concerns of our times – the question of what, if any, limits there are on executive power—by examining the origins of executive power under George Washington.

Washington played a vital role in framing the Constitution as the president of the Philadelphia Convention. He then went on to put the document into practice as America’s first president, a role in which…