Revolution and reiteration : Hannah Arendt's critique of constituent power
Crowds and communication : representation and voice in postrevolutionary America
Sympathy and separation : Benjamin Rush and the contagious public
Spaces of insurgent citizenship : theorizing the Democratic-Republican societies
Hearing voices : imagination and authority in Wieland
Aesthetic democracy : Walt Whitman and the poetry of the people
Staging dissensus : Frederick Douglass and "We the people".