Preface and Acknowledgments
Part One: Introduction
1. To Philadelphia
2. The Great Debate of 1788
3. The Unionist Paradigm
4. An Experiment in International Cooperation
Part Two: The Lessons of History
5. An Age of Inquiry
6. Greece and Rome
7. Universal Monarchy and the Balance of Power: The View from the Eighteenth Century
8. Republiques Federative and Machiavellian Moments
9. The British Setting: Continental Connections and the Balanced Constitution
Part Three: The British Empire and the American Revolution
10. From War to War
11. Constitutional Crisis
12. Burden-Sharing & Representation
13. Plans of Union and the Imperial Predicament
14. “The Great Serbonian Bog”
15. Rights and Wrongs, Prophets and Seers
16. Independence and the Union
Part Four: Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
17. Problematics of Union
18. The “Dickinson Plan”
19. Deadlock and Compromise
20. The Basis of Congressional Authority
Part Five: A Foreign Policy of Independence
21. Foundations of the New Diplomacy
22. States, Sections, and Foreign Policy
23. The Armistice of 1783
Part Six: Peace Pact: The Writing and Ratification of the Constitution
24. Vices of the Critical Period
25. To the Great Compromise
26. Commerce, Slavery, and Machiavellian Moment
27. Sovereignty in “A Feudal System of Republics”
28. Federals and Anti-Federals
29. Conclusion
A Note on Capitalization, Style, and Bibliography
Appendix. The Argument Diagramed
Figure 1. Associations of States: Comparataive State Systems and Empires
Figure 2. Constitutional Interpretation: Varieties of Federal Union, 1763-1787
Figure 3. American Political Thought: The Unionist Paradigm, c. 1776
Figure 4. Theories of American Politics
Figure 5. American Diplomacy and Theories of International Relations
Figure 6. Objectives, Doctrines, and Principles of Early American Diplomacy
Figure 7. General Map of Interpretation
The Constitution in History: Bibliographical Essay
List of Short Titles
Notes
Index