Individual Rights Reconsidered
Subtitle: Are the Truths of the U.S. Declaration of Independence Lasting?
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780817999322
Subjects: Politics / Current Events; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Law; Political Science; United States; Politics/International Relations; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Individualism; Declaration of Independence; Human rights; Liberalism
First sentence: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE is almost certainly the most powerful piece of political rhetoric ever penned.
Description: "The essays in this volume reconsider the case of the basic tenets of the U.S. political tradition, outlined in the Declaration of Independence and expressed in much of the U.S. legal system. The authors answer the innumerable criticisms advanced against the political philosophy of natural individual human rights over the last two centuries, criticisms that are now more widely embraced than is that philosophy.

Yet the ideas of the Founders - specifically, that every human individual has basic, unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - continue to be well grounded and difficult to reject. The historians, political theorists, and philosophers who reconsider the Founders' principles in this work must be contended with in any future discussion of the issues involved."--BOOK JACKET.