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28. Cobbett,
Parliamentary History
, vol. 16, p. 177.
29. James Mackintosh,
Vindiciae Gallicae: Defence of the French Revolution and its English Admirers
(Dublin: Printed by W. W. Corbet for R. Cross, et al., 1791) pp. 3056.
30. Anne Pallister,
Magna Carta: The Heritage of Liberty
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971) p. 77.
31. Some observers argue that Burke maintained a strong belief in natural law, even though he scorned a theory of natural rights. See for

 

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example Peter J. Stanlis,
Edmund Burke and the Natural Law
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1965), especially pp. 1428.
32. Paul E. Sigmund,
Natural Lawin Political Thought
(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Winthrop Publishers, 1971), p. 56.
33. Michel Villey, "La genèse du droit subjectif chez Guillaume d'Occam,"
Archives de philosophie du droit
9 (1964), pp. 97127. See also Brian Tierney, "Villey, Ockham and the Origin of Individual Rights," in John Witte, Jr., and Frank S. Alexander, eds.,
The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion
(Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988), pp. 131.
34. Ockham, however, does not mention the term "natural law" in his ethical or theological writings. See Kilian McDonnell, "Does William of Ockham Have a Theory of Natural Law?,"
Franciscan Studies
34 (1974), pp. 38392.
35. This is the view of Sigmund,
Natural Law in Political Thought
, p. 56.
36. Richard Tuck,
Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), pp. 2224.
37. Ullmann,
Law and Politics
, pp. 29394.
Chapter 4
1. This discussion largely follows Ullmann,
Individual and Society
, pp. 10445.
2. Otto of Freising, in
Monumenta Germaniae historiae, scriptores rerum Germanicarum
[1912] i. 47, 65:
Nos non tragediam, sed iocundam scribere proposuimus hystoriam
.
3. Ullmann,
Law and Politics
, p. 270.
4. See Edward Rosen, "The Invention of Eye Glasses,"
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
11 (1956), pp. 1246, 183218.
5. Ullmann,
Individual and Society
, p. 121.

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