The principle of federation

Preface

Introduction

Notes to the introduction

The principle of federation and the need to reconstitute the party of revolution

Part One

1. Political dualism

authority and liberty: opposition and interconnection of the two ideas

2. a priori conceptions of political order: regime of authority, regime of liberty

3. Forms of government

4. Compromise between the principles: origins of political contradictions

5. De facto governments: social dissolution

6. The political problem posed: the principle of a solution

7. Isolation of the idea of federation

8. A progressive constitution

9. What has delayed federation: factors hindering the idea

10. Political idealism: efficacy of federal guarantees

11. Economic sanctions: the argo-industrial federation

Part Two

1. The Jacobin tradition: federalist Gaul, monarchical France

Translator's notes on the text