PART I Introduction.-Case Study of Cuyahoga County, Ohio: The American Way of Public Service Ethics.-Introduction:The Political Ethics of Public Service: A New American Way of Public Service Ethics.-PART II The Ethical Inquiry of Career Public Servants: Balancing Public and Private Morality in Governing Methods -- 1.“What Am I to Be?”: Personal Loyalty, Thick-Thin Morality, and the Crisis of Conscience -- 2.“What Am I to Be?”: Personal Loyalty, Thick-Thin Morality, and the Crisis of Conscience -- 3.“Will I Do It?”: Clarifying the Costs of Ethical Voice.-PART III Great Political Ideas and American Constitutionalism: Balancing Liberty and Equality in Government -- 4.Political Philosophy, the American Constitutional Heritage, and Constitutional Thinking -- 5.Federalism, Constitutional Law, and the Politics of Freedom -- 6. The Political Ethics of Constitutional Change and Constitutional Stewardship -- PART IV Political Institutions and Democratic Public Service: Balancing Liberty and Authority in Bureaucratic Governance -- 7. Bureaucratic Governance Perspectives and Democratic Public Service: Institutional Ideals and Threats -- 8. Racial Profiling: Abuses of Bureaucratic Authority that Threaten the Liberty of Citizens -- 9. The Political Ethics of Constitutional Professionalism -- PART V Conclusion -- Conclusion: The New American Way of Ethics: The Political Ethics of Constitutionally Centered Public Service.