Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
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Cato's Letters
Conscience
Consent of the governed
Consideration
Constitutionalism
Critique
De jure
Divine right of kings
Doctrine
English law
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Ethics
Explanation
First principle
Good and evil
Hugo Grotius
Immanence
Inference
John Locke
Jus gentium
Modernity
Morality
Multitude
Natural and legal rights
Natural law
Naturalness (physics)
No taxation without representation
Obedience (human behavior)
Obligation
Patriarchalism
Philosopher
Philosophy
Political philosophy
Political science
Politics
Popular sovereignty
Positive law
Precedent
Principle
Private property
Protestantism
Puritans
Reason
Republicanism
Requirement
Right of revolution
Roman Law
Ruler
Self-interest
Self-ownership
Slavery
Social contract
Sovereignty
State of nature
Statute
Suggestion
Tax
Theory
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Hobbes
Thomism
Treatise
Two Treatises of Government
Whiggism
Whigs (British political party)
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691059709
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 09 Mar 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 developed in England. He argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean. Before the English Civil War the opposition was inspired by the effort to find the "one true Protestant politics--an effort that was seen to be a failure by the end of the Interregnum period. The Restoration saw the emergence of the Whigs, who sought a way to ground politics free from the sectarian theological-scriptural conflicts of the previous period. The Whigs were particularly influenced by the Dutch natural law philosopher Hugo Grotius. However, as Zuckert shows, by the mid-eighteenth century John Locke had replaced Grotius as the philosopher of the Whigs.
Zuckert's analysis concludes with a penetrating examination of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the English "Cato," who, he argues, brought together Lockean political philosophy and pre-existing Whig political science into a new and powerful synthesis. Although it has been misleadingly presented as a separate "classical republican" tradition in recent scholarly discussions, it is this "new republicanism" that served as the philosophical point of departure for the founders of the American republic.
Michael P. Zuckert is Congdon Professor of Political Science at Carleton College. He is the author of The National Rights Republic: Studies on the Foundations of the American Political Tradition.
