The Author: John R. Vile is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University. A graduate of the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia, Vile has published numerous articles and four other books: Rewriting the Constitution (1991),The Constitutional Amending Process in American Political Thought (1992),A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments (1993), and Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process (1993).