Forrest McDonald

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1. Forrest McDonald

   Author of Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography, States' Rights and the Union : Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876

2. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders, The Origins of American Politics

3. Russell Kirk

   Author of The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered, Prospects for Conservatives

4. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, The American Revolution; a History

5. Pauline Maier

   Author of American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, From Resistance to Revolution

6. Jack N. Rakove

   Author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic

7. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, The Age of Reform

8. Lance Banning

   Author of The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, Liberty and Order: The First American Party Struggle

9. John Taylor

   Author of Arator, Tyranny Unmasked

10. William W. Freehling

    Author of The Road to Disunion: The Secessionists at Bay 1776-1854, The Road to Disunion. Volume II, Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836

11. E. G. West

    Author of Adam Smith: The Man and His Works, Education and the State: A Study in Political Economy

12. Charles A. Beard

    Author of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of The United States

13. Stanley M. Elkins

    Author of The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800

14. M. E. Bradford

    Author of Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution, Founding Fathers: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution, The Reactionary Imperative: Essays Literary and Political

15. James Madison

    Author of Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison

16. Edmund S. Morgan

    Author of The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution

17. Garry Wills

    Author of Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment

18. Robert V. Remini

    Author of Henry Clay; Statesman for the Union, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845, Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time

19. Samuel Pufendorf

    Author of The Divine Feudal Law: Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented, On the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society

20. Herbert J. Storing

    Author of What the Anti-Federalists Were for: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution