Lee Ward is professor of political science at Baylor University. He is the author of several books, including John Locke and Modern Life and Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests.

Michael P. Zuckert is Dreux Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and Clinical Professor at Arizona State University. He was the founding editor of the journal American Political Thought. He is the author of many books, including A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty, also from Kansas.