1. The Core of Campaigning: Rhetoric and Heresthetic
2. Shaping the Alternatives: The Proposed Constitution of 1787
3. Data and Methods for the Study of Campaigns
4. Campaign Themes
5. The Utility of Negative Themes
6. Rhetorical Interaction in the Campaigns
7. Toward a Theory of Rhetoric in Campaigns
8. Evidence about Dominance and Dispersion
9. The Agenda for Ratification
10. Nationalist Domination in the Congresses of the 1780s
11. Nationalist Domination of the Selection of Delegates to the Philadelphia Convention
12. The Nationalist Strategy for Ratification
13. Massachusetts: The Federalist Coalition Expands
14. The Federalists Regain Momentum
15. Virginia and the Failure of Antifederalism
16. New York: Federalists Outflank Antifederalists
17. Forging the Final Constitution
18. Rhetoric and Heresthetic
Appendix. Rhetorical Themes, 1787-88.
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