Toward A More Perfect Union

Neil L. York is Professor of History and History Department Chair at Brigham Young University. He also serves as Karl G. Maeser Professor of General Education. Over the past 25 years he has written widely about Revolutionary America.

• Introduction I. The Political Ideology of the FoundersGordon S. Wood II. Consitutional Politics: States, Sections, and the National InterestPeter S. Onuf III. 1787 and 1776: Patrick Henry, James Madison, the Constitution, and the RevolutionLance Banning IV. Religion, Public Virtue, and the Founding of the American RepublicRichard Vetterli and Gary C. Bryner V. Recovering "First Principles": Critical Perspectives on the Constitution and the Fate of Classical RepublicanismJohn Patrick Diggins VI. The Original Understanding and the Unwritten ConstitutionThomas C. Grey Further Reading Index