Fundamental values, the founding fathers, and the Constitution / John M. Murrin -- The protection of property in the origins and development of the American Constitution / Jennifer Nedelsky -- The individualist foundations of American constitutionalism / J.R. Pole -- John Adams and the French critics of the Constitution / John P. Diggins -- The political philosophy of the Constitution / Edward J. Erler -- The discourse of politics in 1787 : the Constitution and its critics on individualism, community, and the state / Isaac Kramnick -- The Constitution and character : the missing critical principle? / Jean Yarbrough -- Facing up to the founding / Ralph Lerner -- Anarchy and the crisis of the union / Peter S. Onuf -- Ideas in conflict : political strategy and intellectual advantage in the federal convention / Calvin C. Jillson.