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.