I. Law and Politics in the Conversation of Mankind -- 1. Politics and Law -- 2. Ways of World-Making -- 3. Practical Engagements -- II. Justice -- 4. The Iconography of Justice -- 5. The Ancient Idea of the Rule of Law -- 6. Corrective Justice -- 7. Distributive Justice -- III. The State -- 8. Politics as Statecraft -- 9. Sovereignty -- 10. Fractured Sovereignty -- IV. Constitutionalism -- 11. The Social Contract -- 12. Modern Constitutions -- 13. The Age of Rights -- V. Conclusions -- 14. The Relationship between Law and Politics -- 15. The End of Politics and the Triumph of Law?