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Fordham Conversations Host John Rogan\\xa0is\\xa0joined\\xa0by\\xa0John D. Feerick, the Norris Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and dean emeritus to discuss\\xa0Constitution Day, which is\\xa0September 17--the date in\\xa01787 when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed off on the Constitution.

As a recent graduate of Fordham College and Fordham Law School in the mid-1960s, Dean Feerick played a key role in framing the Constitution\\u2019s 25th Amendment\\u2014which addresses presidential succession and inability. He also worked on a nearly successful effort to abolish the Electoral College and brought his constitutional expertise back to Fordham Law School, where he teaches seminars and clinics on the Constitution.\\xa0 \\xa0

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• Dean Feerick\'s\\xa01963\\xa0Fordham Law Review article\\xa0on presidential succession, which was published a month before the the Kennedy assassination and got him involved in working on the 25th Amendment\\xa0
• Fordham Law\'s\\xa025th Amendment Archive, which includes Feerick\'s\\xa0correspondence\\xa0with members of Congress and others during the 25th Amendment\'s drafting

• Feerick\'s\\xa01968 Fordham Law Review article\\xa0calling for a constitutional amendment abolishing the Electoral College, which was published around the time he began working\\xa0with the American Bar Association and Senator\\xa0Birch Bayh on an amendment\\xa0eliminating the Electoral College
• The reports\\xa0from Fordham Law\'s Democracy and the Constitution Clinic, which Dean Feerick and\\xa0John Rogan\\xa0co-taught. The clinic\\xa0advanced reform recommendations related to the Constitution. (added period)
• The\\xa0Fordham University Press page for Feerick\'s memoir, which includes discussions of his work on constitutional issues