Introduction: Four broken promises: why the Tea Party arose -- The English roots of American liberty -- American constitutionalism and the formation of the secular covenant -- Alexander Hamilton and the broken promise of plain meaning -- The Republican Party and the broken promise of free markets -- Woodrow Wilson and the divine right of the state -- Republicans fail to offer an alternative -- Hoover, FDR, and the broken promise of the fiscal Constitution -- FDR's assault on free markets and the Constitution -- LBJ, Richard Nixon, and the final destruction of the three promises -- The broken promise of deliberative accountability and the rise of the Tea Party movement -- Restoring the secular covenant: a Tea Party American based on the Constitution.
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