Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights

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University 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.

 

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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
Index
239
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Susan Ford Wiltshire is Professor Emerita of Classics at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Public and Private in Vergil's Aeneid and the editor of The Usefulness of Classical Learning in the Eighteenth Century.

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