Chapter 1. Throw out the Lifeline
Chapter 2. Sixty-Five Years and Counting
Chapter 3. Assessing the Threat
Chapter 4. My Kingdom for a Plan! (or, The Blinders of Empire)
Chapter 5. Municipalities-Soft Targets/Hard Power
Chapter 6. Common Cause: Why Should Cities Cooperate? The Argument
Chapter 7. Federalism-Familiar, Trustworthy, Layered Government: Reclaim the Local Level
Chapter 8. Multilevel Governance: Implications for Democracy and Security
Chapter 9. The Ideology of Eternal Conflict
Chapter 10. The Disconnect: Nation, Power, Citizens, Democracy, and Law (Civil Order's Five Components)
Chapter 11. Welfare Queen and Patriot King: Take the Impediments Back to the Neighborhood
Chapter 12. City and World Forums
Chapter 13. Revisit the Foundations
Chapter 14. Ace in the Hole-Civic Invention
Chapter 15. Measure of the Electorate
Chapter 16. Final Thoughts
Appendix A. Letter to Mayor or Elected Governing Board of a City or Town
Appendix B. Resolution of Municipal Governing Board
Appendix C. Agenda, First Meeting of Municipal Security Assembly
Appendix D. President's Speech
Appendix E. Eight Questions to Assess Reader's Readiness
