Natural Rights, the Common Good, and the American Revolution
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2026
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-0-8447-5090-3 (ISBN)
Description
The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary
of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has
not been in decades.
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
>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
>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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Persons
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.
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.