The essays in this volume reconsider the case of the basic tenets of the U.S. political tradition, outlined in the Declaration of Independence and expressed in much of the U.S. legal system. The authors answer the innumerable criticisms advanced against the political philosophy of natural individual human rights over the last two centuries, criticisms that are now more widely embraced than is that philosophy. Yet the ideas of the Founders—specifically, that every human individual has basic, unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—continue to be well grounded and difficult to reject. The historians, political theorists, and philosophers who reconsider the Founders' principles in this work must be contended with in any future discussion of the issues involved.
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE is almost certainly the most powerful piece of political rhetoric ever penned. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE is almost certainly the most powerful piece of political rhetoric ever penned. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
natural moral equality, logical chaos, generic goods, human flourishing, subjective right Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Declaration of Independence, New York, Great Britain, John Locke, John Adams, Continental Congress, Oxford University Press, American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Clarendon Press, James Madison, Den Uyl, Eric Mack, Generalization Argument, Brian Tierney, Individualist Thesis, The Second Treatise, British Crown, Harvard University Press, Hillel Steiner, Thomas Aquinas, Gareth Evans, Peter Laslett, Princeton University Press New!
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- Two Treatises of Government by John Locke on 4 pages
- An Essay on Rights by Hillel Steiner on page 81, page 82, and page 83
- The Virtue of Prudence (Studies in Moral Philosophy) by Douglas J. Den Uyl on page 117, page 119, and page 126
- The Philosophy of the American Revolution (Galaxy Books) by Morton Gabriel White on page 21, page 22, and page 23
- Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order by Douglas B. Rasmussen in Front Matter, page 97, and page 115
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