The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary AmericaCambridge University Press, 2004 M07 26 - 459 pages This study examines the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in seventeenth century England and traces the historical development of these ideas from the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688 through to the American Revolution. It illuminates the source of modern liberal, republican, and conservative ideas about rights and government by exploring the philosophical debate between British and Americans that lay at the root of the American Revolution. Whereas most other books on this subject tend to focus exclusively on political theory or historical events, this study combines in-depth philosophical analysis and historical context in a way that will be of interest to political theorists, historians, and students of American and British studies alike. |
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Contents
Reexamining the Roots of AngloAmerican Political Thought | 1 |
THE DIVINE RIGHT CHALLENGE TO NATURAL LIBERTY | 19 |
The Attack on the Catholic Natural Law | 23 |
Calvinism and Parliamentary Resistance Theory | 48 |
The Problem of Grotius and Hobbes | 71 |
THE WHIG POLITICS OF LIBERTY IN ENGLAND | 99 |
James Tyrrell The Voice of Moderate Whiggism | 105 |
The Pufendorfian Moment Moderate Whig Sovereignty Theory | 133 |
The Glorious Revolution and the Catonic Response | 271 |
EighteenthCentury British Constitutionalism | 305 |
THE WHIG LEGACY IN AMERICA | 325 |
British Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Empire | 327 |
Thomas Jefferson and the Radical Theory of Empire | 351 |
Tom Paine and Popular Sovereignty | 375 |
Revolutionary Constitutionalism Laboratories of Radical Whiggism | 396 |
Conclusion | 426 |
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