How Old Are Modern Rights?: On the Lockean Roots of Contemporary Human Rights Discourse

Seagrave, S. Adam

doi:10.1353/jhi.2011.0011

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“…For a good discussion of the issue, see Zuckert (2002, ch. 7) and the exchange between Seagrave (2011Seagrave ( , 2012 and Tierney (2011). 3.…”

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confidence: 99%

James Wilson versus the Bill of Rights

Zink

2013

Political Research Quarterly

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Americans today may take the Bill of Rights for granted, but its inclusion in the U.S. Constitution originally was controversial. To understand why, I turn to James Wilson, a leading statesman of the founding era and the chief opponent of the Bill of Rights. Among other things, Wilson thought a bill of rights would bind future generations to an incomplete list of rights and deprive them of the right to define individual rights over time. His arguments against a constitutional bill of rights also offer a useful view of the complexity and diversity of American founding era thought.

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“…For a good discussion of the issue, see Zuckert (2002, ch. 7) and the exchange between Seagrave (2011Seagrave ( , 2012 and Tierney (2011). 3.…”

Section: Declaration Of Conflicting Interestsmentioning

confidence: 99%