'Michael Foley's book is marvellous... A serious exploration, careful, and controlled, of a seminal idea in American politics' - Professor Aaron Widlavsky

• 1. Newtonian mechanics and American constitutionalism  2. The death of constitutional Newtonianism  3. The perpetuation of constitutional mechanics  4. The Presidency, the Congress and the separation of paradigms  5. A government of laws, men and mechanics

'Michael Foley's book is marvellous... A serious exploration, careful, and controlled, of a seminal idea in American politics' - Professor Aaron Widlavsky

• 1. Newtonian mechanics and American constitutionalism  2. The death of constitutional Newtonianism  3. The perpetuation of constitutional mechanics  4. The Presidency, the Congress and the separation of paradigms  5. A government of laws, men and mechanics

'Michael Foley's book is marvellous... A serious exploration, careful, and controlled, of a seminal idea in American politics' - Professor Aaron Widlavsky

• 1. Newtonian mechanics and American constitutionalism  2. The death of constitutional Newtonianism  3. The perpetuation of constitutional mechanics  4. The Presidency, the Congress and the separation of paradigms  5. A government of laws, men and mechanics