Introduction / Thomas S. Engeman -- Founder of the natural rights republic / Michael P. Zuckert -- Thomas Jefferson and republicanism / Jean Yarbrough -- Eclectic synthesis : Jesus, Aristotle, and Locke / Garrett Ward Sheldon -- Rhetoric of democracy / Robert Dawidoff -- Mythologies of a founder / Robert Booth Fowler -- Economics : the agrarian republic / Joyce Appleby -- Natural rights and scientific racism / James W. Ceaser -- Response / Michael P. Zuckert -- Contributors -- Index.