"The essays in this book have also been published, without introduction and index, in the semiannual journal Social philosophy & policy, volume 22, number 1"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The political needs of a toolmaking animal : Madison, Hamilton, Locke and the question of property / Paul A. Rahe -- Natural rights and imperial constitutionalism : the American revolution and the development of the American amalgam / Michael Zuckert -- There is no such thing as an unjust initial acquisition / Edward Feser -- Nozick and Locke : filling the space of rights / Jeremy Waldron -- Toward a theory of empirical natural rights / John Hasnas -- History and pattern / David Schmidtz -- Libertarianism at Twin Harvard / Loren E. Lomasky -- Sidney Hook, Robert Nozick, and the paradoxes of freedom / John Patrick Diggins -- Begging the question with style : Anarchy, state, and utopia at thirty years / Barbara H. Fried -- The shape of Lockean rights : fairness, Pareto, moderation, and consent / Richard J. Arneson -- One step beyond Nozick's minimal state : the role of forced exchanges in political theory / Richard A. Epstein -- Natural rights and political legitimacy / Christopher W. Morris -- Consent theory for libertarians / A. John Simmons -- Prerogatives, restrictions, and rights / Eric Mack.