ABOUT OUR AUTHORS Tara Ross is the author of Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College , We Elect a President: The Story of Our Electoral College and She Fought, Too: Stories of Revolutionary War Heroines. She is a co-author of Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State. More information about Tara’s work can be found at TaraRoss.com. Joseph C. Smith Jr. is a co-author of Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State. He is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Chicago Law School. A former deputy attorney general of Colorado, he practices law in Denver.