Natural Rights, the Common Good, and the American Revolution - Paperback
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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.
the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and a senior
fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme
Court and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin
Scalia Law School's C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative
State.Yoo, John: - John Yoo is a nonresident senior
fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of
Law at the University of California, Berkeley; and a visiting fellow at the
Hoover Institution.
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