Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
Proposes a fresh view of the political philosophy that lay behind the founding of the United States. This book looks at the Whig or opposition tradition as it developed in England. It argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean.
Print Book, English, cop. 1994
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, cop. 1994
397 p. ; 24 cm.
9780691059709, 0691059705
638841125
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPrologue3Pt. 1Protestants27Ch. 1Aristotelian Royalism and Reformation Absolutism: Divine Right Theory29Ch. 2Aristotelian Constitutionalism and Reformation Contractarianism: From Ancient Constitution to Original Contract49Ch. 3Contract and Christian Liberty: John Milton77Pt. 2Whigs95Ch. 4Whig Contractarianisms and Rights97Ch. 5The Master of Whig Political Philosophy119Ch. 6A Neo-Harringtonian Moment? Whig Political Science and the Old Republicanism150Pt. 3Natural Rights and the New Republicanism185Ch. 7Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Questions Concerning the Law of Nature187Ch. 8Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Two Treatises of Government216Ch. 9Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Of Property247Ch. 10Locke and the Transformation of Whig Political Philosophy289Notes321Bibliography377Index391