Two Revolutions, Two Declarations
Contract and the Declaration of Rights
CHAPTER ONE
Aristotelian Royalism and Reformation Absolutism: Divine Right Theory
The Reformation Attitude and the Transformation of Aristotle
Patriarchalism and the Reformation Attitude
The Original Contract and the Reformation Attitude: Philip Hunton
The Aristotelianism of the Original Contract: Henry Parker
CHAPTER THREE
Contract and Christian Liberty: John Milton
Two Revolutions, Two Contractarianisms: Milton’s “Tenure” and the Declaration of Independence
Miltonic Politics and the Reformation Attitude
Milton’s Christian Republicanism
Two Contractarianisms, Two Fundamental Attitudes
CHAPTER FOUR
Whig Contractarianisms and Rights
The Restoration and the Emergence of the Whigs
Exclusion and Whig Non-Contractarianism: Grotian Legalism
Whig Contractarianism and the Glorious Revolution: Right Grotians
Whig Contractarianism and the Glorious Revolution: Left Grotians
CHAPTER FIVE
The Master of Whig Political Philosophy
Grotius and the Reformation of Natural Law
Nature and Convention in the Roman Law
Grotius’s Break with the Natural Law Tradition
Nature and Convention in the Grotian Natural Law
CHAPTER SIX
A Neo-Harringtonian Moment? Whig Political Science and the Old Republicanism
The Politics of Liberty: Bernard Bailyn
The Politics of the Organic Community: Gordon Wood
The Politics of “Zoon Politikon”: J.G.A. Pocock
Political Philosophy and Political Science
In the Neo-Harringtonian Workshop
PART THREE: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
CHAPTER SEVEN
Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Questions Concerning the Law of Nature
Locke and the Immanent Natural Law
Natural Law: Natural Sociability and Natural Morality
CHAPTER EIGHT
Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Two Treatises of Government
The Transcendent Natural Law in “Two Treatises”
Thomist Natural Law and the Natural Executive Power
Grotian Natural Law and the Natural Executive Power
Natural Right and the Natural Executive Power
Transcendent Natural Law: Suicide
CHAPTER NINE
Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Of Property
Transcendent Natural Law: Property
Natural Law and Natural Rights
CHAPTER TEN
Locke and the Transformation of Whig Political Philosophy
Lockean Whiggism: “An Argument for Self-Defence”
“Cato’s Letters”: A Lockean Political Philosophy
“Cato’s Letters”: Natural Rights and the Old Republicanism