Acknowledgements Note on conventions Introduction 1. Greek nonsense in More's Utopia 2. The Roman agrarian laws and Machiavelli's modi privati 3. James Harrington and the 'balance of justice' 4. 'Prolem cum matre creatam': the background to Montesquieu 5. Montesquieu's Greek republics 6. The Greek tradition and the American Founding Coda: Tocqueville and the Greeks Bibliography Index.
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