Natural Rights, the Common Good, and the American Revolution

Name: Natural Rights, the Common Good, and the American Revolution
Brand: AEI Press
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By Yuval Levin

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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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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 120
Release Date:: 2025-10-07
Publication Date:: 2025-10-07
Publisher:: AEI Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0844750913
ISBN13:: 9780844750910
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 187 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 7 cm

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