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Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty: Moral Right and State Authority in Early Modern Political Thought

By David Saunders , Ian Hunter

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0333964594, 9780333964590, 9781403919533
Open Library ID
OL17052126M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
775 kB (794110 bytes)
Pages
272\271
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to bear on a single crucial issue: the role of early modern natural law doctrines in reconstructing the relations between moral right and civil authority in the face of profound religious and political conflict. In addition to providing fresh insights into the hard-fought struggle to legitimate a desacralised civil order, the book also shows the degree to which the legitimacy of the modern secular state remains dependent on this decisive set of developments.

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