Classical & Medieval Sources of Natural Law
Aristotle
Plato
Cicero
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Aquinas
Late Medieval Transformations
The Early Modern Liberal Roots of Natural Law
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Natural Law and the Law of Nations
Montesquieu
Common Law and the Law of Reason
Radical Whigs and Natural Rights
Natural Law and Natural Rights in the American Constitutional Tradition
Colonial Roots
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence
Abraham Lincoln
The Influence of the Scottish Enlightenment
Founding Era Constitution-Making
Modern Constitutionalism
The Bill of Rights
Abraham Lincoln
Post-Civil War Amendments
The U.S. Supreme Court and Natural Law
American Civil Rights Movements
Contemporary Natural Law Theory
New Natural Law Theory
Critics of the Natural Law Tradition
Machiavelli
Enlightenment Critics
Social Darwinism
American Progressivism
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Legal Positivism