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