Description: Editor's PrefacePrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. "The Way of Obedience": Foundations1: Governing Women in British North America2: Toward the Revolutionary SettlementPart II. "Talk is the Fountain-Head of All Things": Republican Speech Communities and Coequality3: Law, Gender, and Domestic Culture4: Republican Speech Communities5: Toward Coequality and Self-Possession6: Capitalism and the New American Empire7: The Civil War SettlementPart III. "Governments Try Themselves": Democratic Suffrage Communities and Equality8: Democratic Suffrage Communities9: Economic Protection versus Equal Rights10: Physical Protection versus Self-Sovereignty11: The Civil Rights Settlement12: AfterwordNotesBibliographic EssayIndex

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