Introduction / Richard B. Morris -- America and the Enlightenment / Henry Steele Commager -- European republicanism in the century and a half before 1776 / Caroline Robbins -- The fascination of republican virtue amongst the known and the unknown / J.H. Plumb -- Corruption and power in provincial America / Richard Bushman -- Royal and republican corruption / Edmund S. Morgan -- The beginnings of American republicanism, 1765-1776 / Pauline Maier -- The preconditions for American republicanism: a comment / Jack P. Greene -- The loyalist critique of the revolution / Mary Beth Norton -- Men with two countries / Esmond Wright