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This book argues that the history of human rights can be meaningfully extended from the present all the way back to the late medieval period. It further claims that the key question up until the Age of Revolutions was not whether or not all individuals possessed rights, but rather what happens to our rights when we enter into a political society. Our contemporary rights regime holds that we preserve human rights under all conditions. But in the period between the Wars of Religion and the late Enlightenment, most theorists argued that we had to either give up our rights, or transfer them to gov ... More
Keywords: human rights, French Revolution, social naturalism, natural law, natural rights, natural constitutionalism, Enlightenment, American Revolution, Physiocracy, Declaration of rights
Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226588988 |
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: May 2019 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226589039.001.0001 |
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