Abstract
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The American Logocracy: The Nexus of Word and Act: 1. Political and linguistic representation: confidence or distrust? 2. Language and legal constitutions: the problem of change and who governs Part II. Political and Linguistic Corruption: The Ideological Inheritance: 3. The classical pattern: from the order or Orpheus to the chaos of the Thucydidean moment 4. The Christian typology: From Eden to Babel to Pentecost 5. Eloquence, liberty, and power: civic humanism and the counter-renaissance 6. The enlightenment project: language reform and political order Part III. The American Language of Revolution and Constitutional Change: 7. The language of revolution: combating misrepresentation with the pen and tongue 8. The grammar of politics: the constitution Part IV. From Logomachy to Civil War: The Politics of Language in Post-Revolutionary America 9. The unsettled language: schoolmasters vs. truants 10. Corrupt language and a corrupt body politic, or the disunion of words and things 11. Sovereign words vs. representative men Afterword Notes Index.
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