Part 1 The constitution of the procedural republic: the public philosophy of contemporary liberalism; rights and the neutral state; religious liberty and freedom of speech; privacy rights and family law. Part 2 The political economy of citizenship: economics and virtue in the early republic: free labour versus wage labour; community, self-government, and progressive reform; liberalism and the Keynesian revolution; the triumph and travail of the procedural republic. Conclusion: in search of a public philosophy.
