The Paths of Descent: The Right to Private Property and the Right to Revolt

FAIN: FT-11844-74

Paul Lucas
Clark University (Worcester, MA 01610-1400)

To examine political ideologies relating to private property and the right to revolt. This study maintains that political writers may divided into two classes: those that thought of property as privately sovereign, and those who considered all property to be under governmental authority. This scheme makes greater sense of certain examples of early modern English and European thought, both in its intellectual and practical legalism.