America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism

1. Introduction
Gary L. McDowell, Johnathan O’Neill

Part I. Enlightenment Philosophy and Constitutionalism

2. Recovering (From) Enlightenment?
Steven D. Smith

3. The Positivization of Natural Rights
Martin Loughlin

4. Epicureanism and the Enlightenment
Frederick Rosen

5. Preface to Liberalism: Locke’s First Treatise and the Bible
Robert Faulkner

6. Montesquieu and the Constitution of Liberty
Paul A. Rahe

Part II. The Enlightenment and the Constitution in America

7. The American Enlightenment
Gordon S. Wood

8. Enlightenment and Experience: The Virginia Constitution of 1776
Colin Bonwick

9. Nation-Making and the American Constitutional Process
J. R. Pole

10. Ticklish Experiments: The Paradox of American Constitutionalism
Jack N. Rakove

11. James Madison and the Idea of Fundamental Law
C. Bradley Thompson

Avainsanat: History, History of the Americas, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History, US History, US Politics