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Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights: Volume 15

Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights: Volume 15

Wiltshire, Susan Ford

Hardcover

Series: Oklahoma Classical Culture, Book 15

Ancient GreeceGeneral LawSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0806124644
ISBN13: 9780806124643
Publisher: Univ Of Oklahoma Pr
Published: Nov 15 1992
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

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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