John R. Vile is a professor of political science and dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He has written extensively on the writing and ratification of the United States Constitution, the constitutional amending process, other proposed alternatives to the U.S. Constitution, and Supreme Court decisions and other contemporary understandings of the Document. His books include The Writing and Ratification of the United States Constitution, The Men Who Made the Constitution, The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding, A Companion to the U.S. Constitution and Its Amendments, The United States Constitution: Questions and Answers, Presidential Winners and Losers: Words of Victory and Concession, Essential Supreme Court Decisions: Summaries of Leading Cases in U.S. Constitutional Law, The Constitutional Amending Process in American Political Thought, Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process, Constitutional Change in the United States, Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments and Amending Issues, The Re-Framers: 170 Eccentric, Visionary, and Patriotic Proposals to Rewrite the U.S. Constitution and Describing The Wisest Council in the World: Restoring the Prose Portraits by William Pierce of Georgia of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He is also the editor of and a contributor to The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Change in America, Great American Lawyers,Great American Judges; and Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment, Constitutional Law in Contemporary America and the Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America. In addition to writing many articles and reviews, Vile has contributed to numerous books and encyclopedias.