Contents

I THE IDEA OF CONSERVATISM 1

II BURKE AND THE POLITICS OF

PRESCRIPTION

1. Burke's career 11

2. The radical systems 24

3. Providence and veneration 30

4. Prejudice and prescription 40

5. The rights of civil social man 53

6. Equality and aristocracy 65

1. The principle of order 73

III JOHN ADAMS AND LIBERTY UNDER LAW

1. Federalists and Republicans 80

2. Alexander Hamilton 85

3. Fisher Ames' vaticinations 91

4. John Adams as psychologist 97

5. The aristocracy of nature 106

6. American constitutions 112

1. Marshall and the metamorphosis of

federalism 126

IV ROMANTICS AND UTILITARIANS

1. Benthamism and Walter Scott 130

2. Canning and enlightened conserva-

tism 142

3. Coleridge and conservative ideas 152

4. The triumph of abstraction 169

V SOUTHERN CONSERVATISM: RANDOLPH

AND CALHOUN

1. Southern impulses 172

2. Randolph on the peril of positive

legislation 177

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