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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Two Revolutions, Two Declarations
Contract and the Declaration of Rights
Locke and the Two Revolutions
Locke and the Americans
Part One: Protestants
Chapter One Aristotelian Royalism and Reformation Absolutism: Divine Right Theory
Dimensions of Divine Right
The Similitudes of Rule
The Reformation Attitude and the Transformation of Aristotle
Patriarchalism and the Reformation Attitude
Chapter Two Aristotelian Constitutionalism and Reformation Contractarianism: From Ancient Constitution to Original Contract
The Ancient Constitution
The Mixed Constitution
Contractarianisms
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
Part Two: Whigs
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
Contractarianisms
Chapter Five The Master of Whig Political Philosophy
Grotius and the Reformation of Natural Law
The Source of Political Power
The Problem 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
Harrington and Neo-Harrington
In the Neo-Harringtonian Workshop
Whig Political Science
Part Three: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
Chapter Seven Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Questions Concerning the Law of Nature
Grotius, Pufendorf, Locke
Locke and the Immanent Natural Law
Natural Law: Natural Sociability and Natural Morality
Transcendent Natural Law
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
Grotius, Pufendorf, Property
Transcendent Natural Law: Property
Property as Natural Right
Natural Law and Natural Rights
Lockean Paradoxes
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
“Cato’s Letters”: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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