Natural Right and Political Right: Essays in Honor of Harry V. JaffaThomas B. Silver, Peter W. Schramm |
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... CONSTITUTION Francis Canavan , S.J. ONE OF THE MORE PUZZLING PASSAGES IN THE WRITINGs of Edmund BURKE is his statement that “ our Constitution is a prescriptive Constitution ; it is a Constitution , whose sole authority is , that it has ...
... CONSTITUTION Francis Canavan , S.J. ONE OF THE MORE PUZZLING PASSAGES IN THE WRITINGs of Edmund BURKE is his statement that “ our Constitution is a prescriptive Constitution ; it is a Constitution , whose sole authority is , that it has ...
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... constitution . Burke offered prescription as an answer to that claim , not to the idea of natural rights as such . Faced with this particular natural - right argument , Burke simply pointed to the existing constitution . Not one part of ...
... constitution . Burke offered prescription as an answer to that claim , not to the idea of natural rights as such . Faced with this particular natural - right argument , Burke simply pointed to the existing constitution . Not one part of ...
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... constitution , at least until it is lawfully and legitimately changed . It can be changed - Burke did not deny that ... constitution under which they held it was the rightful constitution . Their and the constitution's authority was not ...
... constitution , at least until it is lawfully and legitimately changed . It can be changed - Burke did not deny that ... constitution under which they held it was the rightful constitution . Their and the constitution's authority was not ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Dante and the Rediscovery of Political Philosophy | 9 |
Jefferson and the Practice of Empire | 27 |
Copyright | |
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