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Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
By: Michael P. ZuckertImprint: Princeton University Press
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In Natural Rights and the New Republicanism , Michael Zuckert proposes a new view of the political philosophy that lay behind the founding of the United States. In a book that will interest political scientists, historians, and philosophers, Zuckert looks at the Whig or opposition tradition as it developed in England. He argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean. Before the English Civil War the opposition was inspired by the effort to find the "one true Protestant politics--an effort that was seen to be a failure by the end of the Interregnum period. The Restoration saw the emergence of the Whigs, who sought a way to ground politics free from the sectarian theological-scriptural conflicts of the previous period.
The Whigs were particularly influenced by the Dutch natural law philosopher Hugo Grotius. However, as Zuckert shows, by the mid-eighteenth century John Locke had replaced Grotius as the philosopher of the Whigs. Zuckert's analysis concludes with a penetrating examination of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the English "Cato," who, he argues, brought together Lockean political philosophy and pre-existing Whig political science into a new and powerful synthesis. Although it has been misleadingly presented as a separate "classical republican" tradition in recent scholarly discussions, it is this "new republicanism" that served as the philosophical point of departure for the founders of the American republic.
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| Title of Philosophy eBook: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism | |
| Release Date: 02-17-1998 | |
| Publisher: Princeton University Press |
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Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
Chapter One
Aristotelian Royalism and Reformation Absolutism: Divine Right Theory
Whether Locke and the Whigs, or whether the English Whigs of 1688 and the American Whigs of 1776, spoke with one voice or not, there was surely one thing they were all agreed in—their opposition to the political doctrine of the divine right of kings. Locke's most important political writing, his Two Treatises of Government, contains a lengthy and detailed commentary cum refutation of one of the leading divine right theorists, and Locke's was but one of several such large-scale efforts to refute that particular thinker. Even as late as fifty years after the American Declaration of Independence—that is, more than two centuries after the emergence of the divine right position—Thomas Jefferson was still citing divine right as the enemy. He made the point with his usual eloquence in a moving fiftieth-anniversary rumination on the Declaration of Independence: "The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." Opposition to monarchy by divine right formed a stable part of every current of political thought that might be held to flow into the Whig tradition. The divine right theory stood then as probably the clearest element within the context of political thought out of which Locke's philosophy ultimately emerged.
At the same time, the very depth and breadth of the opposition to divine right monarchy obscures the variety within tha
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