Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Part I The Founders' Constitution
1 The Founders and the Classics 3
2 Relativism and the Declaration of Independence 33
3 Federalist 10 and American Republicanism 47
4 Civility and Citizenship: George Washington on Civil and Religious Liberty 83
5 Perpetuating the Republic: Education and Politics 101
6 A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln, Harry V. Jaffa, and the Founders 119
Part II The Progressives' Constitution
7 Three Waves of Liberalism 143
8 Woodrow Wilson and the Statesmanship of Progress 169
9 Constitutional Decline and the Administrative State 196
10 From Citizenship to Multiculturalism 218
11 Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism 257
12 The Old New Left and the New New Left 273
Part III Conservatives and the Two Constitutions
13 Reagan's Unfinished Revolution 291
14 What's Wrong with Conservatism? 318
15 Democracy and the Bush Doctrine 341
16 Culture, Creed, and American Nationalism 354
17 Trump and the Conservative Cause 369
18 Thinking about Trump: Morality, Politics, and the Presidency 383
Acknowledgments 401
Notes 405
Index 435