Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy: Volume 29, Part 2

'The insolvency of our national government and several liberal Democratic states, Detroit's bankruptcy, and the continuing struggles of European welfare states suggest that the Progressive answer, whatever it may be, is not as viable as our dominant intellectual culture has thought … The essays present scholarship from a range of disciplines, including intellectual history, political science, American history, philosophy, and law … such collaborations help to redress the imbalance of views in higher education and our elite culture, which is an element of our worsening cultural insolvency.' Paul O. Carrese, Claremont Review of Books

• Introduction; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. The ground of Locke's law of nature Thomas G. West; 2. Montesquieu's natural rights constitutionalism Paul A. Rahe; 3. The idea of rights in the imperial crisis Craig Yirush; 4. Thompson on declaring the laws and rights of nature C. Bradley; 5. Lysander Spooner: nineteenth-century America's last natural rights theorist Eric Mack; 6. Progressivism and the doctrine of natural rights James W. Ceaser; 7. Some second thoughts on progressivism and rights Eldon J. Eisenach; 8. Freedom, history, and race in progressive thought Tiffany Jones Miller; 9. The progressive era assault on individualism and property rights James W. Ely, Jr; 10. Saving Locke from Marx: the labor theory of value in intellectual property theory Adam Mossoff; 11. Roosevelt, Wilson, and the democratic theory of national progressivism Ronald J. Pestritto; 12. On the separation of powers: liberal and progressive constitutionalism Michael Zuckert.