Natural Rights and the New Republicanism / / Michael P. Zuckert.

In Natural Rights and the New Republicanism, Michael Zuckert proposes a new view of the political philosophy that lay behind the founding of the United States. In a book that will interest political scientists, historians, and philosophers, Zuckert looks at the Whig or opposition tradition as it dev...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©1994
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (410 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Prologue
  • Part I: Protestants
  • Chapter 1. Aristotelian Royalism and Reformation Absolutism: Divine Right Theory
  • Chapter 2. Aristotelian Constitutionalism and Reformation Contractarianism: From Ancient Constitution to Original Contract
  • Chapter 3. Contract and Christian Liberty: John Milton
  • Part II: Whigs
  • Chapter 4. Whig Contractarianisms and Rights
  • Chapter 5. The Master of Whig Political Philosophy
  • Chapter 6. A Neo-Harringtonian Moment? Whig Political Science and the Old Republicanism
  • Part III: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
  • Chapter 7. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Questions Concerning the Law of Nature
  • Chapter 8. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Two Treatises of Government
  • Chapter 9. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Of Property
  • Chapter 10. Locke and the Transformation of Whig Political Philosophy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index