G. McDowell & J. O’Neill 
America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism [PDF ebook] 

Introduction – Gary L. Mc Dowell &Johnathan O’Neill Part I: Enlightenment Philosophy and Constitutionalism Recovering (From) Enlightenment? – Steven D. Smith The Positivization of Natural Rights – Martin Loughlin Epicureanism and the Enlightenment – Frederick Rosen Preface to Liberalism: Locke’s First Treatise and the Bible – Robert Faulkner Montesquieu and the Constitution of Liberty – Paul A. Rahe Part II: The Enlightenment and the Constitution in America The American Enlightenment – Gordon S. Wood Enlightenment and Experience: The Virginia Constitution of 1776 – Colin Bonwick Nation-Making and the American Constitutional Process – J.R. Pole Ticklish Experiments: The Paradox of American Constitutionalism – Jack Rakove James Madison and the Idea of Fundamental Law – C. Bradley Thompson

Johnathan O’Neill is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University, and the author of Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History (2005).

Gary Mc Dowell is Professor, Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond.