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Tables of Contents for Covenant and Civil Society
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
6
Part I: Covenant: From Commonwealth to Civil Society
7
110
1. Prologue: Toward a Civil Constitutionalism
7
24
2. Covenant and the New Political Science
31
28
3. Britain: From Whiggism to Liberalism
59
22
4. From Tocqueville to Personalism: Covenant and its Displacement in Post-Revolutionary European Thought
81
20
5. Four Twentieth-Century Federalist Thinkers
101
16
Part II: Covenant and the Age of State-Building
117
80
6. Europe: Modern Nationalism and the Covenant Tradition
117
24
7. The Covenant Motif in Modern Revolutions
141
20
8. Revolutions: Cooperative, Collectivist, and Coercive
161
16
9. Swiss Exceptionalism: Communal and Liberal Democracy
177
20
Part III: Covenant and Constitutionalism
197
68
10. Constitutionalism: The Modern Expression of the Covenantal Tradition
197
18
11. The Three Dimensions of the Constitution
215
24
12. The Covenant Tradition and Rights
239
26
Part IV: Present and Future
265
96
13. The Decline and Possible Revival of Covenant in Our Times
265
26
14. Toward a World Covenantal Network
291
26
15. Covenant, Republicanism, and Democracy
317
24
16. Where Does This Bring Us?
341
20
Excursus 1. The Language of Covenant
361
14
Excursus 2. The Biblical Covenant as the Foundation of Justice, Obligations and Rights
375
8
Index
383