Author Biography
The Modern Edition of the Constitution has been produced by Henry Bain. A political scientist, he graduated from Swarthmore College and received his Ph.D in Social Science from Harvard University.He has had a long career in governmental research and consulting, and has taught at several universities. In his most recent academic position he was director of the postgraduate program in Policy Sciences at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.Dr. Bain s early research on voting behavior included the first study to produce statistically significant evidence that voters tend to favor the first candidate on the list (Bain and Hecock, Ballot Position and Voter s Choice, 1957). His expert testimony in a California courtroom led that state s supreme court to rule the incumbents-first ballot law unconstitutional.He participated in the planning of the rapid transit systems of San Francisco (BART) and Washington, D. C. (Metrorail). He was also a member of the team of social scientists who advised on the planning of the new city of Columbia, Maryland.His experience in local government includes time as a policy analyst for the county council of Montgomery County, Maryland, and as an assistant to the county executive.Early in his career, Bain was an officer in the Navy Supply Corps, serving at sea and in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, where he was responsible for the secretary s annual report to Congress.Dr. Bain is now at work on a scholarly and critical study of the manner in which the original Constitution was written and printed, and of the many forms in which the constitutional text has been printed since 1787. His research has revealed a typographical error in the Seventeenth Amendment, committed in 1912 and apparently never before noticed by constitutional scholars. (Reported in his article in the Fall 2012 issue of Prologue, the quarterly journal of the National Archives.)
