Reconstructing the commercial republic
Subtitle: constitutional design after Madison
By: Stephen L. Elkin.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: Political science -- United States -- Philosophy.; Republicanism -- United States.; Public interest -- United States.; Common good.; United States -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking constitutionally in light of American aspirations; title: The Madisonian commercial republic; title: Flaws in the Madisonian theory; title: Political regimes and political rationality; title: The public interest; title: A public interest politics I; title: A public interest politics II; title: Class and self-interest in the American commercial republic; title: Thinking constitutionally about the American republic; title: A modest program for republicans (with a small "r"); title: Notes.