{"product_id":"natural-rights-the-common-good-and-the-american-revolution-9780844750910","title":"Natural Rights, the Common Good, and the American Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fourth volume of this series, legal scholars and political scientists examine the many ways in which the founding generation understood the \"unalienable rights\" immortalized by the Declaration of Independence. Although the Declaration described the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as a \"self-evident\" truth, this characterization belied the Revolutionary era's complex discourse on the origins of political rights and their role in sustaining a political community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelving into these debates reveals how the American Revolution encoded a productive tension between individual rights and communal responsibilities at the nation's founding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLevin, Yuval:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eYuval Levin\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eNational Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, he is also a senior editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Atlantis\u003c\/i\u003e, a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and a contributing opinion writer at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite, Adam J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAdam J. White\u003c\/b\u003e is\u003cbr\u003ethe Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and a senior\u003cbr\u003efellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme\u003cbr\u003eCourt and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin\u003cbr\u003eScalia Law School's C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative\u003cbr\u003eState.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoo, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJohn Yoo\u003c\/b\u003e is a nonresident senior\u003cbr\u003efellow at the American Enterprise Institute; the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of\u003cbr\u003eLaw at the University of California, Berkeley; and a visiting fellow at the\u003cbr\u003eHoover Institution.\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"AEI Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661234602258,"sku":"9780844750910","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_64931ca2-62c9-4d08-b673-bb6d28185890.jpg?v=1760438466","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/natural-rights-the-common-good-and-the-american-revolution-9780844750910","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}