Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. I. The Age of the Democratic Revolution 1
5. II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies 27
6. III. Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice 55
7. IV. Clashes with Monarchy 85
8. V. A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau 111
9. VI. The British Parliament between King and People 143
10. VII. The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict 185
11. VIII. The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power 213
12. IX. Europe and the American Revolution 239
13. X. Two Parliaments Escape Reform 285
14. XI Democrats and Aristocrats—Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss 323
15. XII. The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 373
16. XIII. The Lessons of Poland 411
17. XIV. The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence 439
18. XV. The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789 469
19. APPENDICES
20. APPENDIX I References for the Quotations at Heads of Chapters 505
21. APPENDIX II Translations of Metrical Passages 506
22. APPENDIX III. Excerpts from Certain Basic Legal Documents 508
23. APPENDIX IV. The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and the French Declaration of Rights of 1789 518
24. APPENDIX V. "Democratic" and "Bourgeois" Characteristics in the French Constitution of 1791: Property Qualifications in France, Britain, and America 522
25. INDEX 529