Constituent moments: enacting the people in postrevolutionary America

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".