Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. PART ONE: The People’s President
4. Introduction: America on the Brink 3
5. 1. The Original Misunderstanding 16
6. 2. John Marshall for President 36
7. 3. Jefferson Counts Himself In 55
8. 4. On the Brink 77
9. 5. What Went Right? 93
10. PART TWO: The People and the Court
11. Introduction: Constitutional Brinksmanship 111
12. 6. Federalist Counterattack 116
13. 7. Republican Triumph 142
14. 8. Marbury v. Stuart 163
15. 9. Presidential Purge 199
16. 10. Synthesis 224
17. 11. Reverberations 245
18. DOCUMENTS: Horatius’s Presidential Knot Judge Bassett’s Protest
19. Horatius’s Presidential Knot 269
20. Judge Bassett’s Protest 276
21. NOTES 298
22. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 367
23. INDEX 369