The politics of liberty in England and revolutionary America /
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004. |
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Table of Contents:
- Reexamining the roots of Anglo-American political thought
- I: The divine right challenge to natural liberty
- The attack on the catholic natural law
- Calvinism and parliamentary resistance theory
- The problem of Grotius and Hobbes
- II: The Whig politics of liberty in England
- James Tyrrell: the voice of moderate Whiggism
- The pufendorfian moment: moderate Whig sovereignty theory
- Algernon Sidney and the old republicanisms
- A new republican England
- Natural rights in Locke's two treatises
- Lockean liberal constitutionalism
- The glorious revolution and the catonic response
- Eighteenth-century British constitutionalism
- III: The Whig legacy in America
- British constitutionalism and the challenge of empire
- Thomas Jefferson and the radical theory of empire
- Tom Paine and popular sovereignty
- Revolutionary constitutionalism: laboratories of radical Whiggism.