Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty: Moral Right and State Authority in Early Modern Political Thought

Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; I.Hunter & D.Saunders PART I: NATURAL LAW AND CIVIL AUTHORITY The Rule of the State and Natural Law; B.Kriegel The Moral Conservatism and Natural Rights; K.Haakonssen Pufendorf's Doctrine of Sovereignty and its Natural Law Foundations; T.Behme PART II: THE STRUGGLE OVER CHURCH AND STATE Natura naturans : Natural Law and the Sovereign in the Writings of Thomas Hobbes; C.Condren Probability, Punishments and Property: Richard Cumberland's Sceptical Science of Sovereignty; J.Parkin The Prince and the Church in the Thought of Christian Thomasius; T.Ahnert PART III: NATURAL LAW AND THE LIMITS OF SOVEREIGHNTY Civil Sovereignty and the King of Kings: Barbeyrac on the Creator's Right to Rule; P.Korkman Sovereignty and Resistance; F.Grunert From the Virtue of Justice to the Concept of Legal Order; D.Hüning PART IV: NATURAL LAW AND SOVEREIGNTY IN CONTEXT Natural Law and the Construction of Political Sovereignty in Scotland 1660-1690; C.Jackson Self-Defence in Statutory and Natural Law; R.von Friedeburg PART V: EARLY MODERN THOUGHT AND MODERN POLITICS Hobbes and Pufendorf on Natural Equality and Civil Sovereignty; K.Saastamoinen Natural Law, Sovereignty, and International Law; P.Schröder Property, Territory and Sovereignty; D.Ivison Pufendorf and the Politics of Recognition; M.J.Seidler