The Natural Rights Republic

By emphasizing the political philosophy -- as opposed political science -- underlying the founding of the United States, Zuckert breaks new ground in the field of America political science and sends the contemporary debates about redefining America back to their ideological roots.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(9)

PART I A Political Philosophy of Natural Rights

10

(82)

Introduction

10

(3)

1. On the Declaration of Independence

13

(28)

Rereading the Declaration

16

(15)

Rereading the Readers of the Declaration

31

(10)

2. Natural Rights and the Question of Self-Evidence

41

(15)

Practical Self-Evidence

42

(7)

Epistemological Self-Evidence

49

(7)

3. On Nature and Natural Rights

56

(36)

Nature

57

(9)

Human Nature

66

(7)

Natural Rights

73

(12)

Civil Rights and Political Imperatives

85

(2)

Appendix: On Reading Jefferson

87

(5)

PART II Convergences: On the Foundation of the American Political Tradition

92

(153)

Introduction

92

(5)

4. Natural Rights and History: American Whigs and English Whigs

97

(21)

Whigs

97

(11)

Locke and the Whig Tradition

108

(10)

5. Natural Rights and Protestant Politics: The First Generation

118

(30)

Pilgrims

124

(9)

Puritans

133

(13)

On the Continuity Thesis

146

(2)

6. Natural Rights and Protestant Politics: Lockean Puritans

148

(54)

Continuity Revisited

152

(7)

The Two Kingdoms

159

(12)

Lockean Puritans

171

(31)

7. The Natural Rights Republic

202

(43)

The Foundation of Republicanism

211

(1)

Classical Republicanism

212

(7)

Oligarchic Republicanism

219

(8)

Amer-Anglo Republicanism

227

(12)

Natural Rights Republicanism

239

(6)

Notes

245

(34)

Bibliography

279

(12)

Index

291

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