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@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments Introduction @toc2:1. Still Hazy after All These Years: The Economic Interpretation and the Cloudy Legacy of Empirical Analysis @toc3:Beard's Thesis: An Interpretation The Case against Beard's Economic Interpretation Recasting the Economic Interpretation Conclusions and Inconclusiveness: What Empirical Analysis Has and Has Not Established @toc2:2. Democracy and the Founders' Constitution: Toward a Balanced Assessment @toc3:The Contours of the Continuing Conflict Confronting the Hermeneutic Impasse The Strategy and Limitations of This Analysis The Question of Inclusiveness Accountability and Responsiveness Political Equality and Apportionment Thinking Clearly and Talking Intelligently about Democracy and Good Government @toc2:3. How Should We Study the American Founding? In Defense of Historically Sensitive Political Philosophy @toc3: Bailyn and Wood: Enveloping Behavioralism and Idealism Skinner: Challenging "Great Books" and "Perennial Questions" Pocock: Studying Political Languages The Contributions of the Linguistic Contextualists The Inadequacies of Linguistic Contextualism Interpreting the American Founding: Historical Integrity and the Paradox of Relevance @toc2:4. Ancients, Moderns, and Americans: The Republicanism-Liberalism Debate Revisited @toc3:Transcending Republicanism versus Liberalism The Multiple Traditions Approach: Alternative Interpretations of Interaction Retrospect: What We Should Have Learned Prospect: The Agenda for Scholars @toc2:5. Taking Historiography Seriously: On Identity, Democracy, Authority, and Appropriation @toc3: The Essence of the American Amalgam: Which Traditions? Whose Multiple Traditions Approach? The Founders' Contribution to the History of Political Thought From Intention to Consequence: The Development and Character of American Democracy Appropriation and Authority: The Relevance and Irrelevance of the American Founding @toc4:Notes Bibliography Index
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Constitutional history -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.