Native Nations and Assimilation in Jefferson’s Lost Constitution of 1804

Jeremy Bailey is a Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton School of the University of Florida. Bailey is a scholar of American political thought and constitutional development, especially the political thought of the early republic, 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. With Alan Gibson, Bailey is editing a two-volume edition of James Madison’s political writings for Cambridge University Press. Bailey is also completing a book on Thomas Jefferson’s political thought, Thomas Jefferson and the Language of American Democracy, that considers the other declarations by Thomas Jefferson, with emphasis on press liberty, Native nations and assimilation, and antislavery.