Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1. Consensus, Dissensus, and Interpretation: How the Antifederalists and Federalists Have Unwittingly Misled Us 1
6. 2. "It Is Natural to Care for the Crazy Machine": The Antifederalists' Postratification Acquiescence 25
7. 3. Refuge of the Resigned: The Postratification Constitutional Thought of Congressional Antifederalists 47
8. 4. Publius in Constitutional Time: A Partnership in Search of Incompatible Equilibria 74
9. 5. The Unbearable Transience of Federalist #IO 105
10. 6. Continuity and Change in the Transition to Partisanship, I789-I8oi 135
11. 7. The Founding Generation and Political Process: Structural Arrangements in the Early Congress 164
12. 8. The Antifederalists: Ironic Legitimators of the American Regime 193
13. A. Ratification Chronology 223
14. B. Members of the U.S. Congress Who Voted in Ratification Conventions 225
15. Notes 239
16. Works Cited 276
17. Index 286