Laurie Thomas VassLaurie Thomas Vass is a regional economist and a constitutional economist. Her political ideology is natural rights conservative. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with an undergraduate degree in Political Science nd a Masters degree in Regional Planning. She was a solo practitioner registered investment advisor for 30 years. She is the inventor and holder of a research method patent on selecting technology stocks for investment. She is the owner of GabbyPress, and the author of 10 books and over 118 scholarly articles on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Her books and articles are intended to provide the logical and philosophical justification for a Democratic Republic, in contrast to Madison's representative republic. She advocates the creation of a new national political party called The New Conservative Party, (c) designed to lead the transition from the representative republic to a federalist state sovereignty government framework. Read More Read Less