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 it 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 through to the American Revolution and the creation of a distinctly American understanding of rights and government in the first state constitutions.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521179638
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96032393
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Lee Ward
Publication Name
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
470 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
230mm
Item Width
154mm
Item Weight
640g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Lee Ward
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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