RICHARD LOSS is an independent political scientist. He has edited and written introductions to Corwin on the Constitution, Vols. I-III, Presidential Power and the Constitution: Essays by Edward S. Corwin, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius with the Letters of Americanus, and Friedrich von Gentz's The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution Compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution.