Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One Radicalism: Honoring the General Will -- The Engine of American History -- The History of Radical Constitutionalism in America -- "A Government by Its Citizens in Mass" -- The People against "the Few and the Great" -- Moral Populism: On the Tensions between Radicalism and Individual Rights -- The Economy: The Agrarian Republic -- The Need for New Political Institutions -- Constitutionalism -- The Organization of Power: A Strict Separation of Powers -- Rights and the Cultivation of Virtue -- From Political Rights to the Right to the Land: The Constitution as La Ley de la Tierra -- Radicalism and Constitutionalism in the Americas: A Balance -- Chapter Two Conservatism: The Moral Cement of Society -- The Endless Influence of Conservatism -- Moral Perfectionism: Preventing the Loosening of Moral Bonds -- Political Elitism: The Impossibility of Democracy in a Society "Full of Vices" -- The Constitution -- Conservative Constitutions and the Structure of Power: "A Single Well-Directed Man" -- Rights: "To Form Customs and National Character" -- The Regeneration of American Citizens -- Private Property and Political Rights: The Realm of the Wealthy -- Conservatism and Constitutionalism in the Americas: A Balance -- The Conservative Legacy -- Chapter Three Liberalism: Between Tyranny and Anarchy -- The Sovereignty of the Individual -- Moral Neutrality: A Wall of Separation -- Political Neutrality: The Procedural View -- From the Sovereignty of the People to the Sovereignty of Reason -- The Economy: The Politics of Laissez Faire -- Constitutionalism -- Rights: The Fight against All Privileges -- The Organization of Power: A System of Checks and Balances -- Liberalism and Constitutionalism in the Americas: A Balance -- Chapter Four The Quest for Equality.

Ulysses' Disloyalty -- The Unfulfilled Promise of Radicalism -- Liberalism: Stabilizing Its Own Program -- Liberals, Conservatives, and Political Inequality -- Political Inequalities: Were They Unavoidable? -- Egalitarianism and Politics: Recognizing the Value of Public Discussion -- Egalitarianism and Rights: The Equal Value of Each Person's Opinions -- The Egalitarian Constitution -- Bibliography -- Index.