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Toward a More Perfect Union is the last of a three-volume series examining the Constitution-as it was drafted and ratified, and the uses made of it over the past two hundred years. Each volume includes essays first presented at conferences on the Bicentennial of the Constitution held at Brigham Young University in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and several additional essays written especially for these anthologies.
Introduction
I. The Political Ideology of the Founders
Gordon S. Wood
II. Consitutional Politics: States, Sections, and the National Interest
Peter S. Onuf
III. 1787 and 1776: Patrick Henry, James Madison, the Constitution, and the Revolution
Lance Banning
IV. Religion, Public Virtue, and the Founding of the American Republic
Richard Vetterli and Gary C. Bryner
V. Recovering "First Principles": Critical Perspectives on the Constitution and the Fate of Classical Republicanism
John Patrick Diggins
VI. The Original Understanding and the Unwritten Constitution
Thomas C. Grey
Further Reading
Index