1: Covenant; 1: Prologue; 2: Covenant and the New Political Science; 3: Britain; 4: From Tocqueville to Personalism; 5: Four Twentieth-Century Federalist Thinkers; 2: Covenant and the Age of State-Building; 6: Europe; 7: The Covenant Motif in Modern Revolutions; 8: Revolutions; 9: Swiss Exceptionalism; 3: Covenant and Constitutionalism; 10: Constitutionalism; 11: The Three Dimensions of the Constitution; 12: The Covenant Tradition and Rights; 4: Present and Future; 13: The Decline and Possible Revival of Covenant in Our Times; 14: Toward a World Covenantal Network; 15: Covenant, Republicanism, and Democracy; 16: Where Does This Bring Us?; Excursus 1 The Language of Covenant; Excursus 2 The Biblical Covenant as the Foundation of Justice, Obligations, and Rights
-Elazar's tome is a major contribution to communitarian thinking as
a response to the failings of liberal individualism and
industrialized economics. He deals comprehensively and exhaustively
with the problem of how to introduce covenantal principles in
modern states... [P]lowing through this work will be edifying to
upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.- --J. R.
Pottenger, Choice
"Elazar's tome is a major contribution to communitarian thinking as
a response to the failings of liberal individualism and
industrialized economics. He deals comprehensively and exhaustively
with the problem of how to introduce covenantal principles in
modern states... [P]lowing through this work will be edifying to
upper-division undergraduates and graduate students." --J. R.
Pottenger, Choice
"Elazar's tome is a major contribution to communitarian thinking as
a response to the failings of liberal individualism and
industrialized economics. He deals comprehensively and exhaustively
with the problem of how to introduce covenantal principles in
modern states... [P]lowing through this work will be edifying to
upper-division undergraduates and graduate students." --J. R.
Pottenger, Choice
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