1. Greek nonsense in More's Utopia
2. The Roman agrarian laws and Machiavelli's modi privati
3. James Harrington and the "balance of justice"
4. "Prolem cum matre creatam": the background to Montesquieu
5. Montesquieu's Greek republics
6. The Greek tradition and the American Founding
Coda: Tocqueville and the Greeks.