Thomas G. West holds the Paul Ermine Potter and Dawn Tibbets Potter Endowed Professorship at Hillsdale College, Michigan. His research areas include American political thought, natural law and natural right, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, and Leo Strauss.
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Introduction Part I. The Political Theory of the Founding: An Overview: 1. Equality, natural rights, and the laws of nature 2. The case against the natural rights founding 3. Equality and natural rights misunderstood 4. The founder's arguments for equality, natural rights, and natural law 5. The state of nature 6. The social compact and consent of the governed 7. Natural rights and public policy Part II. The Moral Conditions of Freedom: 8. Why government should support morality 9. How government supports morality 10. Sex and marriage in political theory and policy 11. Cultivating public support for liberty and virtue 12. What virtues should government promote? 13. The founder's virtues: questions and clarifications Part III. Property and Economics: 14. The founder's understanding of property rights 15. Private ownership 16. Free markets 17. Sound money 18. The Hamilton-Jefferson quarrel Conclusion. Justice, nobility, and the politics of natural rights Index.
Introduction Part I. The Political Theory of the Founding: An Overview: 1. Equality, natural rights, and the laws of nature 2. The case against the natural rights founding 3. Equality and natural rights misunderstood 4. The founder's arguments for equality, natural rights, and natural law 5. The state of nature 6. The social compact and consent of the governed 7. Natural rights and public policy Part II. The Moral Conditions of Freedom: 8. Why government should support morality 9. How government supports morality 10. Sex and marriage in political theory and policy 11. Cultivating public support for liberty and virtue 12. What virtues should government promote? 13. The founder's virtues: questions and clarifications Part III. Property and Economics: 14. The founder's understanding of property rights 15. Private ownership 16. Free markets 17. Sound money 18. The Hamilton-Jefferson quarrel Conclusion. Justice, nobility, and the politics of natural rights Index.
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