| Contents: |
The apple of gold and the frame of silver -- Natural rights and the American Revolution -- The founders on religion, morality, and property -- Government under the Articles of Confederation : the problem of legislative / majority tyranny -- Rethinking the nature of Union and the structure of government -- The three branches of government -- The founders on slavery, the rise of the positive good school, and the roots of the secession crisis -- Crisis of constitutional government -- Secession and Civil War -- The progressive rejection of the founding -- Institutionalizing progressivism : the New Deal and the great society. |
