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Author Ward, Lee, 1970-

Title The politics of liberty in England and revolutionary America / Lee Ward
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 459 pages)
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
Summary "This study locates the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in the philosophical, theological, and political controversies in seventeenth-century England. By examining the quarrel between the proponents of the doctrine of natural liberty and the champions of divine right theory, this study identifies the source of modern liberal, republican, and conservative ideas about natural rights and government in the seminal works of the Exclusion Whigs Locke, Sidney, and Tyrrell and their philosophical forebears Hobbes, Grotius, Spinoza, and Pufendorf. This study illuminates how these first Whigs and their diverse eighteenth-century intellectual heirs such as Bolingbroke, Montesquieu, Hume, Blackstone, Otis Jefferson, Burke, and Paine contributed to the formation of Anglo-American political and constitutional theory in the crucial period from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution and the creation of a distinctly American understanding of rights and government in the first estate constitutions."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-450) and index
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Subject Political science -- Great Britain -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century
Political science -- Great Britain -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century
Political science -- United States -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century
Political science -- United States -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century
Liberty.
Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Political science -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Freedom
freedom.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Political science
War -- Causes
Liberty
Political science -- Philosophy
Divine Right of the Kings
Politische Philosophie
Naturrecht
Regierung
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140149
Subject Great Britain
United States
Großbritannien
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781107321656
1107321654
9780511889684
0511889682
9780511527944
0511527942
9781107316263
110731626X