Author: Kelly Coats

Kelly Coats is a graduate of James Madison University, where he earned a master’s degree in American History. A veteran of the U.S. Army Parachute Infantry, he served from 2003 to 2013. He has also worked as a history teacher and spent time in the corporate security field. His scholarly interests include American history, intellectual history, constitutional history, and the political thought of the American founding. Outside of his professional and historical interests, he enjoys strength training, recreational shooting, and spending time with his wife and two young daughters. He and his family live in the Richmond, Virginia, area, where he continues to research and write about American constitutional and intellectual history.

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James Wilson and Popular Sovereignty: Recovering the Democratic Foundations of the American Constitution

Recovering James Wilson’s Constitutional Vision Few figures of the American founding exhibit a greater disparity between historical significance and public recognition than James Wilson. A signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, one of the Constitutional Convention’s most influential delegates, and an original Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Wilson […]

by Kelly Coats