Machiavelli's liberal republican legacy / edited by Paul A. Rahe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Machiavelli's liberal republican legacy / Paul A. Rahe -- Prologue: Machiavelli's rapacious republicanism / Markus Fischer -- Machiavelli in the English revolution / Paul A. Rahe -- The philosophy of liberty : Locke's Machiavellian teaching / Margaret Michelle Barnes Smith -- Muted and manifest English Machiavellism : the reconciliation of Machiavellian republicanism with liberalism in Sidney's Discourses concerning government and Trenchard's and Gordon's Cato's letters / Vickie B. Sullivan -- Getting our bearings : Machiavelli and Hume / John W. Danford -- The Machiavellian spirit of Montesquieu's liberal republic / Paul Carrese -- Benjamin Franklin's "Machiavellian" civic virtue / Steven Forde -- The American prince? : George Washington's anti-Machiavellian moment / Matthew Spalding -- John Adams's Machiavellian moment / C. Bradley Thompson -- Thomas Jefferson's Machiavellian political science / Paul A. Rahe -- James Madison's princes and peoples / Gary Rosen -- Was Alexander Hamilton a Machiavellian statesman? / Karl-Friedrich Walling.