He holds a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin. Prof. DeHart is author of Uncovering the Constitution's Moral Design, published by the University of Missouri Press in 2007, and of "The Dangerous Life: Natural Justice and the Rightful Subversion of the State," which appeared in the July 2006 edition of the journal Polity. In the Summer of 2008, he was the recipient of an NEH Summer Stipend for work on his current book project, tentatively titled Covenantal Realism, which argues for the incoherence of conventional social contract theory on the one hand and, given human equality, the necessity of consent for the legitimacy of governmental authority, on the other hand.