Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political and Legal Philosophy
ABSTRACT
The objective of this symposium was to stimulate its conferees to investigate two separate and antithetical American political traditions: the original Lockean tradition of the Founding, and the collectivist reaction to it which arose principally in the newly established universities in the decades following the Civil War. Beyond historical investigations, essays that analyze the principles at the core of the various versions of each tradition were studied.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Ceaser, James W. “Progressivism and the Doctrine of Natural Rights.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
Eisenach, Eldon J. “Some Second Thoughts on Progressivism and Rights.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
Ely, James W. Jr. “The Progressive Era Assault on Individualism and Property Rights.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
Mack, Eric. “Lysander Spooner: Nineteenth Century America's Last Natural Rights Theorist.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
Miller, Tiffany. “Freedom, History and Race in Progressive Thought.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
Mossoff, Adam. “Saving Locke from Marx: Two Concepts of Value in Intellectual Property Theory.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
Pestritto, Ronald J. “Roosevelt, Wilson, and the Democratic Theory of National Progressivism.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
Rahe, Paul A. “Montesquieu's Natural Rights Constitutionalism.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
Thompson, C. Bradley. “On Declaring the Laws and Rights of Nature.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
West, Thomas G. “The Ground of Locke's Law of Nature.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
Yirush, Craig. “The Idea of Rights in the Imperial Crisis, 1764-1775.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.
Zuckert, Michael. “On the Separation of Powers: Liberal and Progressive Constitutionalism.” Liberty Fund, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, May 11-14, 2011.