Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy

The essays in this collection investigate two political traditions and their critical interactions.

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.