Natural Rights and the Right to Choose

by Hadley Arkes

Book Overview

Over the last thirty years the American political class has come to talk itself out of the doctrines of natural rights that formed the main teaching of the American Founders and Abraham Lincoln. With that move, they have talked themselves out of the ground of their own rights. But the irony is that they have made this transition without the least awareness, and indeed with a kind of serene conviction that they have been expanding constitutional rights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521812186
• ISBN13: 9780521812184
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"