About the Author

JOHN R. VILE is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University where he also serves as a mock trial coach. He is the author of The U.S. Constitution: Questions and Answers (Greenwood, 1998), Constitutional Change in the United States (Praeger, 1994), Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process (Praeger, 1992), The Constitutional Amending Process in American Political Thought (Praeger, 1991) and a CD_ROM on the History of the American Legal System (1999).