James H. Read, Ph.D., is a political science professor at the College of Saint Benedict at Saint John’s University in Minnesota and the author of “Majority Rule versus Consensus: The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun” (University Press of Kansas, 2009), “Power versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson” (University of Virginia Press, 2000) and “Doorstep Democracy: Face to Face Politics in the Heartland” (University of Minnesota Press, 2008).
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