Gary L. Gregg II holds the Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership at the University of Louisville and is director of the McConnell Center. He is the author or editor of several books, including Vital Remnants: America's Founding and the Western Tradition and Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition.

Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science at George Fox University in Oregon. He is the author of The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742-1798 and coeditor of The Founders on God and Government and The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life, among other books.