America and Enlightenment constitutionalism
By: edited by Gary L. McDowell and Johnathan O'Neill.
Contributors: McDowell, Gary L., 1949-; O'Neill, Johnathan G.
Series: Studies of the Americas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781403972361
Subjects: Constitutional history -- United States; Constitutional law -- United States -- European influences; Enlightenment; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
Description: viii, 270 p. ; 22 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Gary L. McDowell and Johnathan O'Neill; title: pt I. Enlightenment philosophy and constitutionalism. Recovering (from) Enlightenment? / Steven D. Smith ; The positivization of natural rights / Martin Loughlin ; Epicureanism and the Enlightenment / Frederick Rosen ; Preface to liberalism: Locke's First Treatise and the Bible / Robert Faulkner ; Montesquieu and the constitution of liberty / Paul A. Rahe; title: pt II. The Enlightenment and the Constitution in America. The American Enlightenment / Gordon S. Wood ; Enlightenment and experience: the Virginia Constitution of 1776 / Colin Bonwick ; Nation-making and the American constitutional process / J.R. Pole ; Ticklish experiments: the paradox of American constitutionalism / Jack Rakove ; James Madison and the idea of fundamental law / C. Bradley Thompson.