bill farley is currently a PhD student at the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. Before entering the PhD program, he authored several conference papers and articles on the history of capitalism and politics in the Mountain West region of the United States. farleywc@vcu.edu.

peter z. grossman is the Clarence Efroymson Professor of Economics at Butler University. He received his PhD from Washington University, where he was a student of Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North. Grossman has published more than two hundred works, including seven books and articles for both scholarly and general publications. pgrossma@butler.edu.

daniel peart is Senior Lecturer in American History at Queen Mary University of London. His publications include Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early Republic (University of Virginia Press, 2014) and Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816–1861 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). He is currently researching a book on Speakers of the House, 1789–1861. d.peart@qmul.ac.uk.

logan sawyer is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Georgia. His research on constitutional law and political institutions in American history is focused on how originalism became partisan jurisprudence. He has published related work in the Law & History Review and the American Journal for Legal History. lesawyer@uga.edu.