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The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism and the American Revolution

Steven M. Dworetz

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 29 (2):273-280 (1993)

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“Lockeian liberalism” and “classical republicanism”: the formation, function and failure of the categories.J. C. D. Clark - 2023 - Intellectual History Review 33 (1):11-31.details The contest between “Lockeian liberalism” and “classical republicanism” as explanatory frameworks for the intellectual history of the American Revolution, and therefore of the present-day United States, has been one of the longest running and most distinguished in recent U.S. historiography. It also has major implications for the history of political thought in the North Atlantic Anglophone world more widely. Yet this debate was merely suspended when it was held to have ended in an ill-defined compromise. Although some U.S. historians expressed (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
The American Revolution: Not a Just War.Gregg Frazer - 2015 - Journal of Military Ethics 14 (1):35-56.details Was the American Revolution a just war? Did it adhere to the accepted standards for determining a just war? This article evaluates the American situation in the 1770s, including the Americans’ claims to be Englishmen, the level of taxation in the colonies, their level of freedom, and the violence perpetrated by American colonists. It also investigates the validity of the primary American argument – no taxation without representation. The reporting of key events and American propaganda is explored along with its (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Liberalism in America: Hartz and his critics.Sanford Lakoff - 2005 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 8 (1):5-30.details Over the past 50 years, Louis Hartz’s reinterpretation of American political thought has had considerable influence – both in shaping later studies and provoking rebuttals. Drawing on Tocqueville’s observation that Americans were fortunate in having been ‘born equal’ instead of having to become so by revolution, Hartz compared American political thought with that of Britain and France in order to show that America has been enthralled by an ‘irrational Lockianism’. Although criticisms need to be taken into account, and the thesis (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
The Declaration of the United Colonies: America's First Just War Statement.Eric Patterson & Nathan Gill - 2015 - Journal of Military Ethics 14 (1):7-34.details Was the American War for Independence just? In July 1775, a full year before the Declaration of Independence, the colonists argued that they had the right to self-defense. They made this argument using language that accords with what we can broadly call classical just war thinking, based, inter alia, on their claim that their provincial authorities had a responsibility to defend the colonists from British violence. In the 1775 Declaration of the United Colonies, written two months after British troops attacked (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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