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CHAPTER 1 . “Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution.” This essay originally appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly. Reprinted by permission of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William and Mary.

 

CHAPTER 3. “Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century.” This essay originally appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly. Reprinted by permission of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William and Mary.

 

CHAPTER 4. “Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution.” From Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity, edited by Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Carter II. Copyright © 1987 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.edu

 

CHAPTER 6. “The Making of American Democracy.” Reprinted by permission of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C.

 

CHAPTER 8 . “Monarchism and Republicanism in Early America.” Reprinted by permission of La Trobe University.

 

CHAPTER 9. “Illusions of Power in the Awkward Era of Federalism.” This essay originally appeared in Launching the “Extended Republic”: The Federalist Era, edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert (University of Virginia Press, 1996). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

 

CHAPTER 10 . “The American Enlightenment.” This essay originally appeared in America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism, edited by Gary L. McDowell and Johnathan O’Neill (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

 

CHAPTER 11. “A History of Rights in Early America.” This essay originally appeared in The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond, edited by Barry Alan Shain (University of Virginia Press, 2007). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.