Nicholas Barden

Nicholas Barden is a PhD student in Government at Georgetown University. He earned an MA in Government from Georgetown University and a BA in Philosophy from Patrick Henry College. His research focuses on a body of constitutional writing that emerged during the French Reformation and Wars of Religion, a key period of transition from medieval to modern political orders. He evaluates several permutations of constitutional argumentation—along with their concomitant theories of sovereignty, state, legitimacy, and resistance—that emerged under conditions of sectional violence and civil war.