pt. 1. Ideologies: The American Constitution: a revolutionary interpretation / Stanley N. Katz --

The Constitution of the thinking revolutionary / Ralph Lerner --

Interests and disinterestedness in the making of the Constitution / Gordon S. Wood --

pt. 2. Issues: Shay's Rebellion and the ratification of the federal Constitution in Massachusetts / Richard D. Brown --

Money, credit, and Federalist political economy / Janet A. Riesman --

The practical sphere of a republic: James Madison, the Constitutional Conventions, and the emergence of revolutionary federalism / Lance Banning --

Slavery and the Constitutional Convention: making a covenant with death / Paul Finkelman --

James Madison and visions of American nationality in the confederation period: a regional perspective / Drew R. McCoy --

pt. 3. Aftermath: The structure of politics at the accession of George Washington / Jack N. Rakove --

The persistence of antifederalism after 1789 / Richard E. Ellis --

Religious dimensions of the early America state / Stephen Botein --

Epilogue: A roof without walls: the dilemma of American national identity / John M. Murrin.