Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION AND THE PROBLEM OF MODERN LIBERTY Chapter 3 The Unfinished Revolution Chapter 4 The French Revolution and French and English Liberalism Part 5 Part II: TWO PHILOSOPHIES, TWO REVOLUTIONS Chapter 6 The Two Revolutions Chapter 7 The American Founding and the French Revolution Chapter 8 Human Rights and Constitutional Government: A Franco-American Dialogue at the Time of Revolution Chapter 9 The Great Misunderstanding Part 10 Part III: REVOLUTION, CONSTITUTION, LAW Chapter 11 The Rule of Law in Eighteenth-Century Revolutions Chapter 12 The "Rights of Man and Citizen" in the French Constitutional Tradition Chapter 13 Revolutionary Visions in Legal Imagery: Constitutional Contrasts between France and America Chapter 14 Conclusion: Two Revolutions and the Problem of Modern Prudence Chapter 15 Index

About the Author

Ralph C. Hancock is associate professor of political science at Brigham Young University. L. Gary Lambert is associate professor of French at the same university.

Reviews

. . . the overall movement of the essays from general to specific offers something of interest to a broad range of professsional readers, including theorists, historians, comparativists and jurists.
*Comparative Politics*

The essays . . . compare various aspects of the French Revolution to its American predecessor, an element of the book that will make it of particular interest to readers in the United States. The book's coherence is remarkable . . .
*American Political Science Review*