Cover

About the Author

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I - Freedom and Power

Chapter 1 - Anarchy

Chapter 2 - Coercive Power

Chapter 3 - Tyranny

Chapter 4 - The Police Power

Chapter 5 - The American Constitution

Chapter 6 - The Declaration of Independence

Chapter 7 - Tocqueville and Marx

Chapter 8 - Reciprocal Power

Chapter 9 - Moral Power

Chapter 10 - Demagoguery

Chapter 11 - Social Pluralism

Chapter 12 - Political Democracy

Part II - Institutions of Freedom

Chapter 13 - The Presidency

Chapter 14 - The Coercive Power of the Presidency

Chapter 15 - The Presidency’s Reciprocal and Moral Powers

Chapter 16 - Legislatures as Schools

Chapter 17 - Congress as Defender of Freedom

Chapter 18 - The Supreme Court as Freedom’s Protector

Chapter 19 - The Moral Power of the Courts

Chapter 20 - Political Parties: Machines, Coalitions, Churches

Chapter 21 - American Newspapers and Ideas

Chapter 22 - Free-Market Capitalism

Chapter 23 - The Moral Effects of Taxation

Chapter 24 - Federalism and Freedom

Part III - American Society

Chapter 25 - We the People

Chapter 26 - The American Electorate

Chapter 27 - Tocqueville’s Warnings

Chapter 28 - Equality

Chapter 29 - Racial Equality

Chapter 30 - Americans and Foreign Relations

Chapter 31 - The Democratic Vision

Epilogue

Appendix A: The Eleven Paradoxes of Politics

Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States

Appendix C: Federalist Nos. 10, 51, and 70

Index