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The politics of liberty in England and revolutionary America /
"This study locates the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in the philosophical, theological, and political controversies in seventeenth-century England. By examining the quarrel between the proponents of the doctrine of natural liberty and the ch...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Reexamining the roots of Anglo-American political thought
- I: The divine right challenge to natural liberty
- The attack on the catholic natural law
- Calvinism and parliamentary resistance theory
- The problem of Grotius and Hobbes
- II: The Whig politics of liberty in England
- James Tyrrell: the voice of moderate Whiggism
- The pufendorfian moment: moderate Whig sovereignty theory
- Algernon Sidney and the old republicanisms
- A new republican England
- Natural rights in Locke's two treatises
- Lockean liberal constitutionalism
- The glorious revolution and the catonic response
- Eighteenth-century British constitutionalism
- III: The Whig legacy in America
- British constitutionalism and the challenge of empire
- Thomas Jefferson and the radical theory of empire
- Tom Paine and popular sovereignty
- Revolutionary constitutionalism: laboratories of radical Whiggism.