Part I. The enduring issues of the American Revolution, 1776-1815 -- The problem of power: parties, aristocracy, and democracy in revolutionary thought -- Part II. Republicanism, liberalism, and the great transition -- Jeffersonian ideology revisited: liberal and classical ideas in the new American republic -- The Republican interpretation: retrospect and prospect -- Some second thoughts on virtue and the course of revolutionary thinking -- Quid transit? Paradigms and process in the transformation of Republican ideas -- Part III. The Constitution -- The Constitutional Convention -- The Federalist Papers -- 1787 and 1776: Patrick Henry, James Madison, the Constitution, and the Revolution -- Part IV. James Madison -- James Madison and the nationalists, 1780-1783 -- The Hamiltonian Madison: a reconsideration -- The practicable sphere of a republic: James Madison, the Constitutional Convention, and the emergence of revolutionary federalism -- Part V. The first party conflict -- Political economy and the creation of the federal republic -- The Jeffersonians: first principles.
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