Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. Creating a Public
6. Chapter I: ‘The very image and transcript’: Transplanting the Ancient Constitution 21
7. Chapter II. Experiments in Democratic Sociability: The Political Significance of Voluntary Associations 63
8. Chapter III. ‘The most powerful engine of the human mind’: The Press and Its Readers 116
9. Chapter IV. ‘A united public opinion that must be obeyed’: The Politics of Public Opinion 176
10. Part Two. Debating the Alternatives
11. Chapter V. ‘We are become in every thing but name, a Republic’: The Metcalfe Crisis and the Demise of Mixed Monarchy 235
12. Chapter VI. Publius of the North: Tory Republicanism and the American Constitution 272
13. Chapter VII. Mistaking ‘the shadow for the substance’: Laying the Foundations of Parliamentary Government 304
14. Chapter VIII. ‘Its success ... must depend on the force of public opinion’: Primogeniture and the Necessity of Debate 360
15. Conclusions and Speculative Questions 411
16. Bibliography of Printed Primary Sources 439
17. Illustration Credits 449
18. Index 451