Ratification and the politics of the public sphere
The dynamics of the pubic debate
The anti-Federalist critique
The rhetoric of ratification
Reading politics and the politics of reading
Elite Anti-Federalist political and constitutional thought
Constitutionalism
The problem of Federalism and Localism
The theory of the small republic
The Public sphere
Popular Anti-Federalist political and constitutional thought
Middling Constitutionalism
The political sociology of middling anti-Federalism
Centinel and Philadelphiensis: voices of radical Democracy
Plebeian Populism
The Carlisle riot: the Constitutionalism of the crowd
Plebeian radicalism and the public sphere
Courts, conventions, and constitutionalism: the politics of the public sphere
The politics of the public sphere
The Oswald libel case of 1788
The aborted Second Convention Movement
The emergence of a loyal opposition
The debate over the meaning of representation
Rats versus Antirats
Anti-Federalism and the politics of the First Congress
Anti-Federalist voices within Democratic-Republicanism
Hamiltonianism and the Democratic-Republican opposition
Strict construction and the original understanding
The limits of dissenting constitutionalism
The Demoratic-Republican societies
The Whiskey Rebellion
Federalism versus Localist Democracy
The founding dialogue and the politics of constitutional interpretation
The irony of the search for an original intent
The Sedition Act and the transformation of opposition Constitutionalism
The Principles of '98
Democratic-Republican constitutionalism and the public sphere
Public opinion and dissenting political thought
Responses to the Alien and Sedition crisis
The anti-Federalist Blackston: St. George Tucker and a Democratic-Republican jurisprudence
The dissenting tradition, from the revolution of 1800 until nullification
Clinton versus Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland and the collapse of the Madisonian synthesis
The revival of anti-Federalism: Robert Yates's secret proceedings
Nullification and splintering of the dissenting tradition
Van Buren and the anti-Federalist mind
Epilogue: Anti-Federalism and the American political tradition
Appendix 1. Reprinting of anti-Federalist documents
Appendix 2. Pamphlet, broadside, and periodical republication of anti-Federalist documents.