Spring 2009 -- Editor’s Note: In an interview conducted some 12 years ago with Navigator magazine (the predecessor of this publication), David N. Mayer, the author of " Completing the American Revolution " discussed specific institutional changes he would like to see enacted by a new American constitution. We asked Mayer if and how his beliefs have changed on these issues.
Mayer is a professor of law and history at Capital University (Columbus, Ohio) where he teaches courses in American constitutional history, English and American legal history, and intellectual property (copyright and unfair trade practices law), as well as a seminar in libertarianism and the law. He is the author of The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson and Liberty of Contract: Rediscovering a Lost Constitutional Right as well as various articles published in law reviews and history and political science journals. Mayer is a member of the editorial board of the Cato Supreme Court Review and has been a frequent speaker at Atlas Society events.