1. I would like to thank Andrew Arato, Jay Bernstein, Richard Bernstein, Jean Cohen, Ann Kornhauser, David Plotke, Gunther Teubner, and Nadia Urbinati for their comments and suggestions.
2. 1. Quoted inJonathan Elliot's Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution as Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, ed. James McClellan and M.E. Bradford (Cumberland, VA: J. River, 1989), vol. 2, 432.
3. 2. Germaine de Stael,Des circonstances actuelles qui peuvent terminer la revolution et des principles qui doivent fonder la republique en France, ed. Lucia Omacini (Paris-Geneve: Librairie Droz, 1979), 39.
4. 4. For example, see Saskia Sassen,Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization(New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).