Toward a more perfect Union Book

	Foreword
1	Editor's Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Constitutional Foundations
2	The Constitutional Convention: Toward a More Perfect Union	17
3	Federalists and Anti-Federalists: The Ratification Debate	37
4	The "Other" Federalist Papers: A Preliminary Sketch	77
5	The Constitution and the Bill of Rights	108
Pt. 2	Slavery and Race in American Politics
6	Slavery and the Moral Foundations of the American Republic	131
7	Frederick Douglass	151
8	The School of Slavery: A Reconsideration of Booker T. Washington	176
9	What Country Have I? Political Writings by Black Americans	206
Pt. 3	Rights, the Rule of Law, and the Public Interest
10	William Blackstone	223
11	The Case against Civil Disobedience	236
12	Interest Groups and the Public Interest	259
13	The Crucial Link: Public Administration, Responsibility, and the Public Interest	269
Pt. 4	Public Administration, Bureaucracy, and Big Government
14	The Problem of Big Government	287
15	Political Parties and the Bureaucracy	307
16	Leonard D. White and the Study of Public Administration	327
17	The Role of Government in Society	352
Pt. 5	The Presidency and Statesmanship
18	The Creation of the Presidency	369
19	The Presidency and the Constitution	377
20	A Plan for Studying the Presidency	386
21	In Defense of the Electoral College	395
22	American Statesmanship: Old and New	403
Pt. 6	Liberal Education and the Study of Politics
23	Liberal Education and the Common Man	431
24	The "Chicago School" of Political Science	440
25	The Achievement of Leo Strauss	444
	Bibliography of the Writings of Herbert J. Storing	451
	Index	453
	About the Author	467
	About the Editor	469