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This book illustrates the deep roots of natural law doctrines in
America's political culture. Originally published in 1931, the
volume shows that American interpretations of natural law go to the
philosophical heart of the American regime. The Declaration of
Independence is the preeminent example of natural law in American
political thought-it is the self-evident truth of American society.
Benjamin Wright proposes that the decline of natural law as a
guiding factor in American political behaviour is inevitable as
America's democracy matures and broadens. What Wright also
chronicled, inadvertently, was how the progressive critique of
natural law has opened a rift between and among some of the ruling
elites and large numbers of Americans who continue to accept it.
Progressive elites who reject natural law do not share the same
political culture as many of their fellow citizens. Wright's work
is important because, as Leo Strauss and others have observed, the
decline of natural law is a development that has not had a happy
ending in other societies in the twentieth century. There is no
reason to believe it will be different in the United States.
This book illustrates the deep roots of natural law doctrines in
America's political culture. Originally published in 1931, the
volume shows that American interpretations of natural law go to the
philosophical heart of the American regime. The Declaration of
Independence is the preeminent example of natural law in American
political thought it is the self-evident truth of American society.
Benjamin Wright proposes that the decline of natural law as a
guiding factor in American political behaviour is inevitable as
America's democracy matures and broadens. What Wright also
chronicled, inadvertently, was how the progressive critique of
natural law has opened a rift between and among some of the ruling
elites and large numbers of Americans who continue to accept it.
Progressive elites who reject natural law do not share the same
political culture as many of their fellow citizens. Wright's work
is important because, as Leo Strauss and others have observed, the
decline of natural law is a development that has not had a happy
ending in other societies in the twentieth century. There is no
reason to believe it will be different in the United States.
Boston University Law Review, V38, No. 1, Winter, 1958.
Boston University Law Review, V38, No. 1, Winter, 1958.
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