The Authors: W. B. Allen is Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. Previously he served as Director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and as Dean and Professor at James Madison College of Michigan State University. He has published George Washington: A Collection; Let the Advice Be Good: A Defense of Madison's Democratic Nationalism; The Works of Fisher Ames; and The Essential Antifederalists (co-editor).
Kevin A. Cloonan is Adjunct Professor of Government at James Madison University and teaches American government, constitutional law, civil rights, and Western political thought. He earned his Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate University after serving in the United States Air Force as a radar evaluation engineer.