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70. For a complete text and notes, see E. S. Creasy,
The Rise and Progress of the English Constitution
(London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1892), pp. 31726.
71. E.g., Michel Villey,
La formation de la pensée juridique moderne
(Paris: Montchrestien, 1968). See also Tuck,
Natural Rights Theories
, pp. 78, 13: "Consequently, although linguistic evidence is necessary, it is never going to be sufficient to establish that the classical Romans possessed the concept of a right; and the evidence of their theory suggests that they did not."
72. Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan
(London and Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1914; reprint, 1934), part 1, ch. 14, pp. 6667.
73. Wolff,
Roman Law
, pp. 21415.
74. Wolff,
Roman Law
, p. 215.
75. Christian Wolff,
Ius naturae methodo scientifica pertractatum
(1741) I, Prol. 3.
76. Wolfgang Kunkel,
An Introduction to Roman Legal and Constitutional History
, tr. J. M. Kelly, 2d ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973), p. 189. For a critical examination of the role of Locke in the thought of the framers, see John Dunn, "The Politics of Locke in England and America in the Eighteenth century," in John W. Yolton, ed.,
John Locke: Problems and Perspectives
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969), pp. 4580, and Oscar Handlin, "Learned Books and Revolutionary Action, 1776,"
Harvard Library Bulletin
34 (1986), pp. 36279.

 

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Chapter 5
1. Bernard Schwartz,
The Great Rights of Mankind: A History of the American Bill of Rights
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. x.
2. Julian P. Boyd et al., eds.,
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
, vol. 1 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950), p. 292.
3. Schwartz,
Great Rights of Mankind
, p. 70.
4. Brent Tarter, "Virginians and the Bill of Rights," in Jon Kukla, ed.,
The Bill of Rights: A Lively Heritage
(Richmond: Virginia State Library and Archives, 1987), p. 7.
5. Robert Allen Rutland,
The Ordeal of the Constitution
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1983; Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966), pp. 3334.
6. Wright,
American Interpretations of Natural Law
, pp. 12425.
7. Max Farrand, ed.,
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
, rev. ed., vol. 2 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), pp. 63740.
8. Robert Allen Rutland,
The Birth of the Bill of Rights
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955), p. 119.
9.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
, vol. 12, pp. 440, 558.
10. Gaillard Hunt, ed.,
The Writings of James Madison
, vol. 5 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 19001910), pp. 38990.
11. Harold C. Syrett, ed.,
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton
, vol. 4 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1962), p. 35.
12. Schwartz,
Great Rights of Mankind
, p. 202.

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