Liberalism, constitutionalism, and democracy Book

1	Mutual Advantage	1
	Three Mutual-Advantage Theories	1
	Social Order	9
	Coordination	12
	Political Obligation	18
	Unintended Consequences	23
	The Governors	25
	The Argument of the Book	27
	The Normative Status of Sociological Mutual Advantage	31
	A Summary of the Chapters	34
	The Central Controversies	38
2	Liberalism: Political and Economic	41
	Two Liberalisms	41
	The Grounds of Liberalism	45
	The Welfarist Core	47
	Deontological Additions	49
	Strategic Structures	53
	Hobbes	54
	Locke	58
	Smith	59
	Madison	60
	Mill	61
	The Complex View	63
	Collective Resolution	65
	Causal and Conceptual Links	68
	One Unified Liberalism?	73
	Religious Toleration Again	74
	Historical Changes	76
	Centralized Intelligence	78
	Concluding Remarks	80
3	Constitutionalism: Contract or Coordination?	82
	Institutions and Choice	82
	Contract or Coordination?	85
	The Strategic Structure of a Constitution	90
	Coordination on and under a Constitution	103
	Agreement and a Constitution	107
	Incentives to Abide by a Constitution	113
	Contracts Not Like Contracts Either	114
	Bargains in Philadelphia	119
	Large versus Small States	120
	Anti-Federalists versus Federalists	122
	Slavery	127
	Plantation Agrarian versus Commercial Interests	129
	Ex Ante Justification	129
	Why a Written Constitution?	133
4	Democracy: Agreement or Acquiescence?	141
	Consent	141
	Contractarianism	145
	Popular Sovereignty	152
	Constitutionalism and Democracy	157
	Justice as Order and Democracy	159
	Government as Grown	161
	The Logic of Democracy	165
	Limits on Citizen Responsibility	166
	Individual Autonomy	170
	The Right Result	172
	Alternative Visions	175
	Virtual Representation	178
	Concluding Remarks	181
5	Liberalization and its Discontents	184
	Transition to the Two Liberalisms	184
	Constitutional Liberalism	187
	Ethnic Conflicts	190
	Economic Conflicts	195
	Egalitarianism	202
	Equality versus Efficiency	204
	Egalitarianism in One Society	210
	Egalitarianism Without Socialism	212
	The Dual Task of 1989	215
	Irreversibility of Liberalization?	219
	Political Liberalization	220
	Economic Liberalization	222
	Concluding Remarks	223
6	Constitutional Economic Transition	228
	A Neutral Constitution	228
	Expectations and Constitutional Stability	233
	Economic and Political Visions in the Early United States	236
	The Commerce Clause	241
	Economic Growth, Economic Transition	248
	Hammer and Sickle	255
	Economic Transition in a Constitutional Democracy	257
	Economic Transition and Demographic Growth	264
	American and Eastern Comparisons	269
	Concluding Remarks	274
7	Democracy on the Margin	276
	Divided Society	276
	Democracy as Group Census	277
	Interests and Democracy	280
	Constitutional Pre-commitment	283
	American Extremes	285
	Democracy and Economic Development	291
	Communal Good	294
	Group Justice and Democracy	300
	Unequal Coordination	305
	Concluding Remarks	309
	Afterword: Whether Agreed to or Not	311
	Justifying the Whole	311
	Collective and Individual Values	314
	Acquiescence and Mutual Advantage	316
	Concluding Remarks	319
Appendix	Other Liberalisms	322
	Social Liberalism	323
	Institutional Liberalism	324
	Welfare Liberalism	325
	Group Liberalism	326
	The Civil Rights Movement	328
	Strategic Differences	329
	References	333
	Index	349