Table of Contents

• I. The Founding of the Principles of Government
• 1. The Declaration of Independence (1776) Thomas Jefferson
• 2. The Meaning of the Declaration of Independence (1857) Abraham Lincoln
• 3. Exchange on State Sovereignty and the Problem of Majority Rule (1858) Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
• 4. The Revolution of Sober Expectations (1975) Martin Diamond
• 5. The Small Republic Argument (1787) Centinel
• 6. Selections from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
• 7. The Work of the Constitutional Convention (1787) James Madison
• 8. Federalist 10 (1787) James Madison
• 9. Federalist 51 (1788) James Madison
• 10. The Role of the Rich and the Poor in the Legislature (1787) John Adams
• 11. On the Character of the Legislator (1778) Alexander Hamilton
• 12. Federalist 11 (1787) Alexander Hamilton
• 13. The Military in a Commercial Republic (1787) Alexander Hamilton
• 14. Equality and Commerce (1840) Alexis de Tocqueville
• 15. On Citizenship (1824, 1816, 1814) Thomas Jefferson
• 16. Federalist 39 (1788) James Madison
• 17. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• 18. The Purposes Served by Local Self-Government (1840) Alexis de Tocqueville
• 19. Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital (1995) Robert D. Putnam
• 20. By the People: The Old Values of the New Citizenship (1994) William A. Schambra
• II. Political Parties and Elections
• 21. The Electoral College (1788) Alexander Hamilton
• 22. Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents (1888) James Bryce
• 23. The Electoral College and the American Idea of Democracy (1977) Martin Diamond
• 24. Political Parties and Presidential Ambition (1978) James W. Ceaser
• 25. Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
• 26. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
• 27. Party Politics and the Judiciary: Bush v. Gore and the Election of 2000 (2001) Jeffrey J. Poelvoorde
• 28. The New Republican Party (1977) Ronald Reagan
• 29. Second Inaugural Address (2013) Barack Obama
• 30. Popular Leadership and Party Unity: Creating a "Politically Effective Whole" (2013) Mark A. Scully
• III. Congress and the Separation of Powers
• 31. On Congress (1788) Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
• 32. The Need for Cabinet Government in the United States (1879) Woodrow Wilson
• 33. Congress Is Not the Broken Branch (2013) William F. Connelly, Jr.
• 34. U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995)
• 35. The Rise of the Washington Establishment (1989) Morris P. Fiorina
• 36. Deliberation Defended (1994) Joseph M. Bessette
• 37. War Powers Resolution (1973)
• 38. INS v. Chadha (1983)
• IV. The Presidency
• 39. On the Presidency (1788) Alexander Hamilton
• 40. The Rise of the Rhetorical Presidency (1981) James W. Ceaser, Glen E. Thurow, Jeffrey K. Tulis, Joseph M. Bessette
• 41. Campaign Speech on the Presidency (1960) John F. Kennedy
• 42. On Stem Cell Research (2001) George W. Bush
• 43. The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions (1838) Abraham Lincoln
• 44. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
• 45. United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation (1936)
• 46. Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• 47. On the Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus (1863) Abraham Lincoln
• 48. Clinton v. Jones (1997)
• 49. Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876) Frederick Douglass
• V. The Judiciary
• 50. The Role of the Supreme Court (1788) Alexander Hamilton
• 51. The Problem of Judicial Review (1787) Brutus
• 52. Against Judicial Review (1815) Thomas Jefferson
• 53. The Authority of the Supreme Court (1857) Abraham Lincoln
• 54. Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• 55. Federalist Constitutionalism and Judicial Independence (2013) Matthew S. Brogdon
• 56. United States v. Nixon (1974)
• 57. City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
• 58. Constitutional Interpretation (1985) William J. Brennan, Jr.
• 59. Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee (1987) Robert H. Bork
• 60. Exchange on the Binding of Generations (1789–1790) Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
• 61. Federalist 49 (1788) James Madison
• 62. California v. Bakke (1978)
• 63. The Supreme Court, Affirmative Action, and the Judicial Function (1990) L. Peter Schultz
• 64. Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
• VI. Politics and Economics
• 65. Capitalism and Freedom (1962) Milton Friedman
• 66. The New Goals of Politics (1932, 1935, 1941) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• 67. Ideology and Supply-Side Economics (1981) Irving Kristol
• 68. Soft Despotism (1840) Alexis de Tocqueville
• 69. Against Manufacturing (1787) Thomas Jefferson
• 70. Report on Manufactures (1791) Alexander Hamilton
• 71. Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992)
• 72. Kelo v. New London (2005)
• 73. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012)
• 74. Regulation and Liberty (2013) Adam M. Carrington
• VII. Foreign Policy and the American Regime
• 75. The Moral Basis of International Action (1961) Joseph Cropsey
• 76. The Mainsprings of American Foreign Policy (1950) Hans J. Morgenthau
• 77. Selections from Pacificus and Americanus (1793–1794) Alexander Hamilton
• 78. Selections from Helvidius (1793) James Madison
• 79. Flat but Happy Elections in Kurdish Iraq (2013) James F. Pontuso
• 80. Remarks on National Security (2009) Barack Obama
• 81. Remarks on National Security (2009) Richard B. Cheney
• VIII. Liberty and Equality
• 82. United States V. Stevens (2010)
• 83. Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990)
• 84. Roe v. Wade (1973)
• 85. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey (1992)
• 86. Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
• 87. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• 88. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• 89. Bolling v. Sharpe (1954)
• 90. A Note on the New Equality (1977) Eugene J. McCarthy
• 91. Harrison Bergeron (1961) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 92. The Natural Aristocracy (1813) Thomas Jefferson
• 93. Why So Many Ambitious Men and So Little Lofty Ambition Are to Be Found in the United States (1840) Alexis de Tocqueville
• Appendix
• The Constitution of the United States of America