Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rights in a Multicultural Age (Bruce P. Frohnen and Kenneth L. Grasso)
Historical Roots of Modern Rights: Before Locke and After (Brian Tierney)
Natural Rights and Social Contract in Burke and Bellarmine (Gary D. Glenn)
Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the Declaration of Independence (George W. Carey)
Individual and Group Rights: Self-Government and Claims of Right in Historical Practice (Bruce P. Frohnen)
The Ontology of Rights (Kenneth L. Schmitz)
The Historical and Communal Roots of Legal Rights and the Erosion of the State (Paul Gottfried)
Reintegrating Rights: Catholicism, Social Ontology, and Contemporary Rights Discourse (Kenneth L. Grasso)
Toward a Social Pluralist Theory of Institutional Rights (Jonathan Chaplin)
Epilogue: Toward an Integrative Vision (Bruce P. Frohnen)
Notes on the Contributors
Index