Natural Rights, the Common Good, and the American Revolution (America at 250) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0844750913 ISBN 13: 9780844750910

Verlag: AEI Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance. In the fourth volume of this series, legal scholars and political scientists examine the many ways in which the founding generation understood the "unalienable rights" immortalized by the Declaration of Independence. Although the Declaration described the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as a "self-evident" truth, this characterization belied the Revolutionary era's complex discourse on the origins of political rights and their role in sustaining a political community. Delving into these debates reveals how the American Revolution encoded a productive tension between individual rights and communal responsibilities at the nation's founding.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Janice Rogers Brown is a lecturer and
senior fellow at the public law and policy program at the University of
California, Berkeley, School of Law. She was a judge on the US Court of Appeals
for the DC Circuit and on the California Supreme Court.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AEI Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0844750913
• ISBN 13: 9780844750910
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120
• Herausgeber: Levin Yuval, White Adam J., Yoo John
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