Foreword / Charles R. Adrian -- 1. Introduction: Public Virtue and the Roots of Republican Government -- 2. The Metamorphosis of the Idea of Virtue -- 3. Virtue Comes to America -- 4. Civil Religion and Republican Government -- 5. The Separation of Church and State -- 6. Factions, Republican Virtue, and Constitutional Government -- 7. Public Virtue and the Commercial Spirit -- 8. Self-Interest Rightly Understood.