Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction The Contractarian Logic of Classical Liberalism JAMES M. BUCHANAN Public Choice Constitutionalism and Economic Rights MARK TUSHNET Civil Rights and Property Rights WILLIAM H. RIKER Judicial Activism of the Right: A Mistaken and Futile Hope LINO A. GRAGLIA Economic Liberty and the Future of Constitutional Self-Government STEPHEN MACEDO Tutelary Jurisprudence and Constitutional Property FRANK MICHELMAN Takings: Of Maginot Lines and Constitutional Compromises RICHARD A. EPSTEIN The Politics of the New Property: Welfare Rights in Congress and the Courts and the Courts R. SHEP MELNICK Work, Government, and the Constitution: Determining the Proper Allocation of Rights and Powers THOMAS R. HAGGARD The Right to Organize Meets the Market LEO TROY Contributors Index

About the Author

Ellen Frankel Paul is Deputy Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. Howard Dickman is Research Associate at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center. He was Research Director of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and Senior Editor of Harper's Magazine. In addition, both are editors of Liberty, Property and the Foundations of the American Constitution, and Liberty, Property, and Government, also published by SUNY Press.