Introduction : history, historicism, and the culture of rights / Michael J. Lacey, and Knud Haakonssen
From natural law to the rights of man : a European perspective on American debates / Knud Haakonssen
The Bill of Rights and the American Revolutionary experience / James H. Hutson
Parchment barriers and the politics of rights / Jack N. Rakove
Rights and wrongs : Jefferson, slavery, and philosophical quandaries / Charles L. Griswold, Jr.
Practical philosophy and the Bill of Rights : perspectives on some contemporary issues / William A. Galston
The development of modern American legal theory and the judicial interpretation of the Bill of Rights / William W. Fisher III
The British, the Americans, and rights / Alan Ryan.