| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Prologue | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | Protestants | 27 |
| Ch. 1 | Aristotelian Royalism and Reformation Absolutism: Divine Right Theory | 29 |
| Ch. 2 | Aristotelian Constitutionalism and Reformation Contractarianism: From Ancient Constitution to Original Contract | 49 |
| Ch. 3 | Contract and Christian Liberty: John Milton | 77 |
| Pt. 2 | Whigs | 95 |
| Ch. 4 | Whig Contractarianisms and Rights | 97 |
| Ch. 5 | The Master of Whig Political Philosophy | 119 |
| Ch. 6 | A Neo-Harringtonian Moment? Whig Political Science and the Old Republicanism | 150 |
| Pt. 3 | Natural Rights and the New Republicanism | 185 |
| Ch. 7 | Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Questions Concerning the Law of Nature | 187 |
| Ch. 8 | Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Two Treatises of Government | 216 |
| Ch. 9 | Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Of Property | 247 |
| Ch. 10 | Locke and the Transformation of Whig Political Philosophy | 289 |
| Notes | 321 |
| Bibliography | 377 |
| Index | 391 |