Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights (47 page)

Read Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights Online

Authors: Susan Ford Wiltshire

Tags: #Political Science, #General, #History, #Law, #Reference, #Civil Rights, #test

BOOK: Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights
6.13Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
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

 

page_195<br/>
Page 195
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.

Other books

In the Time of Dragon Moon by Janet Lee Carey
Obsession (A Bad Boy's Secret Baby) by Nora Flite, Adair Rymer
Blind Justice by William Bernhardt
North from Rome by Helen Macinnes
The Reeve's Tale by Margaret Frazer