Contents
Editors’ Introduction
Part I: Foundations of Political Order
Making Sense of Majoritarianism / Paul Edward Gottfried
George Carey on Constitutions, Constitutionalism, and Tradition / Bruce P. Frohnen
Locke, Our Great Founders, and American Political Life / Peter Augustine Lawler
Part II: The American Republic: Origins and Intent
George Carey and the Roots of America’s Basic Liberties / Donald S. Lutz
Federalists, Antifederalists, and the Philadelphia Constitution / Gordon Lloyd
James Madison and the Extended Republic / Quentin Taylor
The Virtue of Education: The Founders’ Vision / Jeffry Morrison
No Presidential Republic: Representation, Deliberation, and Executive Power in The Federalist Papers / Gary L. Gregg II
Rights in a Federalist System / Francis Canavan
Part III: The American Republic: Derailment and Crisis
Religious Pluralism and the American Experiment: From Articles of Peace to Culture Wars / Kenneth L. Grasso
Horizontal and Vertical Consolidation ofthe United States into an Administrative State / John S. Baker, Jr.
The Rule of Men: How Caring Too Much about Important Things Is Destroying Constitutional Law / William Gangi
The Crisis of the American Political Tradition / E. Robert Statham, Jr.
Neo-Jacobin Nationalism or Reponsible Nationhood? / Claes G. Ryn
Notes
About The Contributors
Index
Postscript To The Catholic Education Press Edition