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Contents

I. THE UNITED STATES OF CORRUPTION

1. Our Machiavellian Moment

Pay-for-Play Networks

Republican Virtue

2. Excusing Corruption

The Mutual Protection Association

The Polemarchist

The Apologist

3. The Silent Killer

Rent-Seeking

Measuring Corruption

The Cost of Corruption

The Rule of Law

4. The Dream of a Virtuous Republic

The Separation of Powers

Federalism

Money

Three Proposals

II. THE SEPARATION OF POWERS

5. An Anticorruption Covenant

The Constitutional Convention

Filtering Virtue

Choosing a Virtuous President

6. What Corruption Meant to the Framers

Republican Virtue

Extensive Virtue

Governing Above Faction

Private Virtue

Religious Virtue—and Vice

7. The Promise of Virtuous Government

Reining In the Presidency

Electing a President

Impeachment

8. How Did That Work Out?

Minoritarian Misbehavior

The Democratic Presidency

Power and Corruption

A Grim Logic

III. FEDERALISM

9. Federalism and Corruption

Bigness and Badness

Smallness and Badness

10. The Mississippi Story

Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Cashes In

11. Designing a Virtuous Justice System

The Genius of the Framers’ Constitution

Genius Frustrated

12. The Silver Bullet

The Way Back

State Judicial Elections

A Judicial Aristocracy

IV. MONEY

13. Bribes

The Ordeal of Francis Bacon

Corruption of the Heart

The Limits of Bribery Law

14. The Republic of Defection

The Dismal Dialectic

Crimes of Democracy

The U-Curve

15. Policing Crony Capitalism: What Doesn’t Work

Disclosure Requirements

Contribution Limits

Spending Caps

16. Three Reforms

Mandated Anonymity

Suspect Donors

Chinese Walls

17. The Heavenly City of the Enlightened Reformer

Appendix A. The Determinants of Public Corruption

Appendix B. Fairness in Interstate Litigation Act

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index