| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-16页 |
| ·Scope and Purpose | 第11-15页 |
| ·Methodology | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-26页 |
| ·On Republicanism | 第16-22页 |
| ·Aristotle's Ideas on Republicanism | 第16-18页 |
| ·Cicero's Understanding of Republicanism | 第18-20页 |
| ·Montesquieu's Concept of Republic—Virtuous, Peaceful, Moderate and Equal | 第20-22页 |
| ·Diggins' Comments on the Relationship between the Federal Constitution and Classical Thoughts | 第22-26页 |
| Chapter 3 From Direct Democracy to Representative Government—the Development of Classical Republicanism | 第26-39页 |
| ·Direct Democracy and Its Limitations in the Federalists' Mind | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Federalist's View of Human Nature: "If Men Were Angels" | 第28-31页 |
| ·Solutions of the Federalists | 第31-39页 |
| ·On the Rejection of Small Republic and Different Ways of Addressing the Problems Posed by Faction | 第31-33页 |
| ·On the Classical Republican Tradition and "the Extended Republic" | 第33-35页 |
| ·"Inventions of Prudence": Representative Government | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter 4 Constitutionalism—the Broadening of the Republic Concept | 第39-54页 |
| ·The Selection of Constitutionalism | 第39-42页 |
| ·The Connotation of Constitutionalism—the Federalists' Explanation | 第42-54页 |
| ·The Supremacy of Comtitution | 第42-44页 |
| ·Check and Balance—the Separation of Powers | 第44-47页 |
| ·The Federalism: "A Barrier against Domestic Faction and Insurrection" | 第47-51页 |
| ·The Compound Republic: "Partly Federal, Partly National" | 第51-54页 |
| Chapter 5 Afterthoughts from the Reading of the Federalist Papers | 第54-64页 |
| ·On the Relationship among Representative Democracy, Constitutionalism and Republicanism | 第54-56页 |
| ·On the Shaping of Civic Virtue—another Inheritance of Classical Republicanism by the Federalists | 第56-59页 |
| ·On the Limitations of the Federal republicanism | 第59-64页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第64-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-69页 |
