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The picture presented by Jenkinson of the increasingly cloistered existence endured by two ageing revolutionaries wracked with spiritual doubt may make for poorer fiction but is certainly the stuff of excellent history. * Edward Vallance, Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eExhaustive research and penetrating analysis. * James Baresel, HistoryNet *\u003cbr\u003eA lively and engaging account of two of the regicides who fled to New England and how they subsequently came to be remembered and mythologized in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century America. 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Exactly how and when did rights come to justify such measures?  InOn the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of rights we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A superb, erudite piece of intellectual excavation. . . . 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Physiocracy and the Dangerous Ignorance of Natural Rights\u003cbr\u003e 3. Natural Rights Talk in the Late Enlightenment: The Philosophes Carry the Torch\u003cbr\u003e 4. The (Meek) Conservative Reaction\u003cbr\u003e 5. Resisting Despotism: National Rights and Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Social Naturalism in Early Modern France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV        The Laws of Nature in Neo-Stoicism and Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Many Receptions of Stoicism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Laws of the Natural World: The New Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e V         Roman Law and Order: From Free-Market Ideology to Abolitionism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Jansenist Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Jean Domat, the Natural Order, and the Origins of Free-Market Ideology\u003cbr\u003e 2. “All Men Are Originally Born Free”: Slavery, Empathy, and the Extension of Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e 3. 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