Natural Rights and the New Republicanism

by Michael P. Zuckert

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691059705
• ISBN13: 9780691059709
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"