Reprinted with permission of The Claremont Institute.
Preface by Ken Masugi
Introduction by John S. Waggoner
Chronology
Prologue
Chapter 1: First Principles
- The Significance of the Revolution of 1800
- The "Terrorism" of the 1790s
- The Character of Modern Party Government
- The Paradoxical and Two-Sided Nature of Modern Political Parties
Chapter 2: The Lessons of Constitution Making
- The Desirability of Government
- The Necessity of Executive Power
- Why Political Parties Were Not Respectable
- National Politics Without Partisanship
- The Importance of George Washington
- Electing the Executive
Chapter 3: Anxious Confidence
- The Anxieties of a New Republic
- The Confidence of Unchallenged Federalism, 1789-1791
- The Hamiltonian Financial and Industrial Project
Chapter 4: Doubts and Disunity
- Was the Downfall of the Federalists Inevitable?
- Political Disunity and the Absence of Principled Partisanship
Chapter 5: The Republicans Organize
Chapter 6: The Republicans Persuade
- Economic Anti-Republicanism and Political Anti-Republicanism
- The Campaign and Elections of 1792
- The Problem of George Washington
- Hamilton's Innocence and Guilt
- Economic Reality and Political Rhetoric
Chapter 7: Foreign Affairs Delay the Republican Victory
- The New Democracy and Old World Diplomacy
- Republican Party Strategy Adapts to the French Revolution
- The Partisan Effects of the Jay Treaty
- Jefferson, Adams, and the Partisan Presidency
- The Partisan Effects of War and Peace with France
Chapter 8: Suppression, Protest and the Revolution of 1800
- The Federalists' Aggressive Domestic Initiatives of 1798
- The Republicans' Response
- The Electoral Revolution
Chapter 9: Conclusion – The Revolution of 1800 and Party Government
- The Meaning of the Electoral Revolution
- The Success of Jefferson's Strategy
- Ideology and Party Government
- Democratic Citizens and Statesmen