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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: STANDING: THE PUBLIC GOOD, THE INDIVIDUAL, AND THE COMMUNITY -- CHAPTER ONE Three Discourses in Defense of the Public Good -- CHAPTER TWO A Sketch of 18th-Century American Communalism -- CHAPTER THREE Localism and the Myth of American Individualism -- CHAPTER FOUR Three Leading Views of the Individual, Plus One -- PART TWO: THE MEANING OF LIBERTY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA -- CHAPTER FIVE A Delusive Similarity: (Ordered) Liberty and Freedom -- CHAPTER SIX Spiritual Liberty: The Quintessential Liberty -- CHAPTER SEVEN Corporate Liberty: Political and Civil -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Concept of Slavery: Liberty's Antithesis -- AFTERWORD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Situating rights : an introduction to the nature of American rights / Richard Primus -- The emergence of the modern concept of a right in America : the contribution of Michel Villey / James H. Hutson -- The authority of rights at the American founding / John Phillip Reid -- Rights natural and civil in the declaration of independence / Barry Alan Shain -- The creation, reconstruction, and interpretation of the Bill of Rights / Akhil Reed Amar -- The dilemma of declaring rights / Jack N. Rakove -- The limited horizons of Whig religious rights / A. Gregg Roeber -- The history of rights in early America / Gordon S. Wood -- Rights consciousness in American history / Daniel T. Rodgers -- The diversity of rights in contemporary ethical and political thought / Leif Wenar and Stephen Macedo -- The politics of rights talk, then and now / Rogers M. Smith

Shain reviews 'Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History' by Rogers M. Smith.

Shain reviews 'Reconsidering American Liberalism: The Troubled Odyssey of the Liberal Idea' by James P. Young.