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Introduction
What is a Right?
John Zumbrunnen
Peter Myers
The Idea of Natural Rights
Social Contract: Hobbes
Social Contract: Locke
Natural Rights
Foundations of Rights: Hobbes, Locke, and the Declaration of Independence
Svetozar Minkov
Utilitarian Critique of Rights
English Bill of Rights, 1689
Andrew Trees
Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
Declaration of Rights and Grievances of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, 1780
Ratification of the Constitution by Massachusetts, 1788
Anti-Federalists on the Bill of Rights
Federalists on the Bill of Rights
Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
Maura Jane Farrelly
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Causes of Conscience, Roger Williams
A Letter Concerning Toleration, John Locke
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1777
Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson
A Sermon Addressed to the Legislature of the State of Connecticut at the Annual Election in Hartford, May 7th, 1823
Freedom of Speech: Milton, Mill, and Franklin
Frame of Government of Pennsylvania, 1682
Trial of Peter Zenger, 1733
1. Declaration of Rights and Grievances of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765
On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
The Federal Farmer, Letter XVIII
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Quartering Act of 1765
Debate in the Virginia Ratifying Convention
Second Treatise of Government, John Locke
Against Writs of Assistance
Leviathan on Self-Incrimination
Magna Carta on Rights of the Accused
The Federal Farmer, Letter XV
English Bill of Rights of 1689
Federalist 84
The Federal Farmer, Letter XVI
Federalist 9
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