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Stephen L. Elkin

Reconstructing the Commercial Republic

Constitutional Design after Madison

416 pages,  6 x 9  © 2006

Cloth $35.00

ISBN: 9780226201344   Published July 2006

Preface
1. Thinking Constitutionally in Light of American Aspirations
Part I: Madison and Constitutional Thinking
2. The Madisonian Commercial Republic
3. Flaws in the Madisonian Theory
4. Political Regimes and Political Rationality
Part II: The Political Constitution of a Commercial Republic
5. The Public Interest
6. A Public Interest Politics I
7. A Public Interest Politics II
8. Class and Self-Interest in the American Commercial Republic
9. Thinking Constitutionally about the American Republic
10. A Modest Program for Republicans (with a small "r")
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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