Greece, Rome, and the Bill of RightsUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1992 - 247 стор. Susan Ford Wiltshire traces the evolution of the doctrine of individual rights from antiquity through the eighteenth century. The common thread through that long story is the theory of natural law. Growing out of Greek political thought, especially that of Aristotle, natural law became a major tenet of Stoic philosophy during the Hellenistic age and later became attached to Roman legal doctrine. It underwent several transformations during the Middle Ages on the Continent and in England, especially in the thought of John Locke, before it came to justify a theory of natural right, claimed by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence as the basis of the "unalienable rights" of Americans. |
Зміст
The Evolution | 7 |
Carta | 51 |
Enlightenment Humanism and the New | 62 |
The Bill of Rights | 89 |
Part TwoGreek and Roman Antecedents to | 101 |
Quartering Soldiers | 132 |
Retained Rights | 168 |
Conclusion | 184 |
Sources Cited | 215 |
239 | |