To make a nation: the rediscovery of American federalism

The rule of the wise and the holy : Thomas Aquinas

The idea of the national republic : John Milton

A constitution for the national republic : James Harrington

The conflict of ideas

The decade of agitation

The discovery of the nation

Montesquieu's confederate republic

Madison's compound republic

Auxiliary precautions

Sovereignty and ratification

James Wilson's social union

Conclusion : liberty and union.