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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Abbreviations and a Note on the Notes | |
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| Introduction: The Other Founders | |
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| Anti-Federalism And The Constitution | |
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| Ratification and the Politics of the Public Sphere | |
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| The Dynamics of the Public Debate | |
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| The Anti-Federalist Critique | |
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| The Rhetoric of Ratification | |
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| Reading Politics and the Politics of Reading | |
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| Elite Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional Thought | |
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| Constitutionalism | |
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| The Problem of Federalism and Localism | |
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| The Theory of the Small Republic | |
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| The Public Sphere | |
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| Popular Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional Thought | |
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| Middling Constitutionalism | |
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| The Political Sociology of Middling Anti-Federalism | |
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| Centinel and Philadelphiensis: Voices of Radical Democracy | |
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| Plebeian Populism | |
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| The Carlisle Riot: The Constitutionalism of the Crowd | |
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| Plebeian Radicalism and the Public Sphere | |
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| Courts, Conventions, and Constitutionalism: The Politics of the Public Sphere | |
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| The Oswald Libel Case of 1788 | |
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| The Aborted Second Convention Movement | |
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| Anti-Federalism Transformed | |
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| The Emergence of a Loyal Opposition | |
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| The Debate over the Meaning of Representation | |
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| Rats versus Antirats | |
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| Anti-Federalism and the Politics of the First Congress | |
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| Anti-Federalist Voices within Democratic-Republicanism | |
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| Hamiltonianism and the Democratic-Republican Opposition | |
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| Strict Construction and the Original Understanding | |
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| The Limits of Dissenting Constitutionalism | |
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| The Democratic-Republican Societies | |
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| The Whiskey Rebellion | |
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| Federalism versus Localist Democracy | |
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| The Anti-Federalist Legacy | |
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| The Founding Dialogue and the Politics of Constitutional Interpretation | |
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| The Irony of the Search for an Original Intent | |
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| The Sedition Act and the Transformation of Opposition Constitutionalism | |
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| The Principles of' 98 | |
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| Democratic-Republican Constitutionalism and the Public Sphere | |
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| Public Opinion and Dissenting Political Thought | |
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| Responses to the Alien and Sedition Crisis | |
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| The Anti-Federalist Blackstone: St. George Tucker and a Democratic-Republican Jurisprudence | |
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| The Dissenting Tradition, from the Revolution of 1800 until Nullification | |
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| Clinton versus Madison | |
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| McCulloch v. Maryland and the Collapse of the Madisonian Synthesis | |
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| The Revival of Anti-Fedealism: Robert Yates's Secret Proceedings | |
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| Nullification and the Splintering of the Dissenting Tradition | |
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| Van Buren and the Anti-Federalist Mind | |
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| Epilogue: Anti-Federalism and the American Political Tradition | |
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| Reprinting of Anti-Federalist Documents | |
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| Pamphlet, Broadside, and Periodical Republication of Anti-Federalist Documents | |
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| Index | |
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| Map | |
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| Ratification of the Constitution | |