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1. 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

2. Gordon S. Wood

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

3. Russell Kirk

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

4. Pauline Maier

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

5. William W. Freehling

   Author of The Road to Disunion: The Secessionists at Bay 1776-1854, The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836

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. John Taylor

   Author of Arator, Tyranny Unmasked

8. Edmund S. Morgan

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

9. Robert V. Remini

   Author of Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821, Henry Clay; Statesman for the Union, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845

10. E. G. West

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

11. Stanley M. Elkins

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

12. Charles A. Beard

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

13. 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

14. James Madison

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Herbert J. Storing

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

18. Raoul Berger

    Author of Government by Judiciary, Federalism: The Founders' Design

19. John C. Calhoun

    Author of Union and Liberty: The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun

20. Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.

    Author of The Presidency of James Monroe, The Jeffersonian Republicans: The Formation of Party Organization, 1789-1801