Paul Finkelman (PhD, University of Chicago) is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. His many books include "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" (2008) and "A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States" (2002), which he coauthored; "The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties" (2006) and "The Encyclopedia of the New American Nation" (2006), which he edited; and" Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson" (2001). For the...