But modern philosophers such as René Descartes, John Locke and Thomas Hobbs began to chip away at it. Hill, an atheist-turned-Catholic, argues in AFTER THE NATURAL LAW that without a theory of ...

Natural Law as a Key to American Jurisprudence The ... including Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Thomas West, Political Theory of the American Founding ...

John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher ... people can accumulate more than they need without violating natural law. Moreover, when people agreed to use money as a form of exchange ...

"Helping to secure [natural rights] in the world of 2213 may require the creation of lesser, instrumental rights by law or constitutional ... Yes, we owe a lot to John Locke.

Whatever the status of such actions might be in terms of international law, the question of whether and how such killings might be morally justified arises. John Locke’s theory of a natural ...

It pits the individual natural rights philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704 ... be subject to criminal sanction and the attention of law enforcement. The inability of law enforcement to suppress ...