Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword

pp vii-x

Preface

pp xi-xvi

Part One - The New Politics ‘Ex Parte Civium’

pp 1-1

Chapter One - The Enlightenment and the Political Critique of the Scientia Juris

pp 2-12

Chapter Two - The Critique of the British Constitutional Model and the Political Laboratory of the American Revolution

pp 13-27

Chapter Three - Against Montesquieu and Class Constitutionalism: The Denunciations of the ‘Feudal Monster’ and the ‘Tempered Monarchy’

pp 28-45

Chapter Four - Constructing a New Constitutionalism: Masonic Sociability and Equality

pp 46-62

Chapter Five - The Neapolitan School of Natural Law and the Historical Origins of the Rights of Man

pp 63-76

Chapter Six - Beyond ‘Reason of State’: The Moral and Religious Foundations of the New Politics Ex Parte Civium

pp 77-99

Chapter Seven - Nation or Fatherland? The Republican and Constitutional Patriotism of italian Enlightenment Thinkers

pp 100-138

Part Two - A Difficult Legacy

pp 139-139

Chapter Eight - The Original Character of Enlightenment Constitutionalism: From the Scienza della legislazione to the 1799 Progetto di costituzione napoletana

pp 140-152

Chapter Nine - Vincenzo Cuoco: The National Critique of Cosmopolitan Enlightenment Constitutionalism

pp 153-175

Chapter Ten - The Liberal Constant against the Enlightened Filangieri: Two interpretations of Modernity

pp 176-195

Chapter Eleven - Filangierian Heresies in the European Democratic Tradition: The Principle of Justice and the Right to Happiness

pp 196-219

Notes

pp 220-272

Index

pp 273-294