Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 17, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780691059709
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Political ideologies; Political science & theory; c 1600 to c 1700; Politics/International Relations; Natural Law; Systems Of Government; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; British Isles; USA; History & Theory - General; Political; United States - Colonial Period; History-United States - Colonial Period; Philosophy; Philosophy / Political; Philosophy-Political; Political Philosophy; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science and International Relations; Political Process - Leadership
First sentence: WHETHER Locke and the Whigs, or whether the English Whigs of 1688 and the American Whigs of 1776, spoke with one voice or not, there was surely one thing they were all agreed in-their opposition to the political doctrine of the divine right of kings Locke's most important political writing, his Two Treatises of Government, contains a lengthy and detailed commentary cum refutation of one of the leading divine right theorists, and Locke's was but one of several such large-scale efforts to refute that particular thinker.