Table of Contents
Introduction: Four Broken Promises: Why the Tea Party Arose 1
Chapter 1 The English Roots of American Liberty 7
Chapter 2 American Constitutionalism and the Formation of the Secular Covenant 35
Chapter 3 Alexander Hamilton and the Broken Promise of Plain Meaning 59
Chapter 4 The Republican Party and the Broken Promise of Free Markets 91
Chapter 5 Woodrow Wilson and the Divine Right of the State 117
Chapter 6 Republicans Fail to Offer an Alternative 141
Chapter 7 Hoover, FDR, and the Broken Promise of the Fiscal Constitution 155
Chapter 8 FDR's Assault on Free Markets and the Constitution 181
Chapter 9 LBJ, Richard Nixon, and the Final Destruction of the Three Promises 201
Chapter 10 The Broken Promise of Deliberative Accountability and the Rise of the Tea Party Movement 217
Chapter 11 Restoring the Secular Covenant: A Tea Party America Based on the Constitution 245
Acknowledgments 265
Endnotes 267
Index 287