Product Description: Designed to serve the needs of students confronting Locke's political thought for the first time, Lee Ward's edition offers a faithful text of Two Treatises of Government with modernized spelling and punctuation. Its Editor's Introduction outlines the main arguments of these works, illustrates the conceptual thread uniting the less frequently read First Treatise with the far more famous Second Treatise, and locates Locke's work amid the turbulent constitutional battles of 1690s England...read more

Product Description: The book examines the intersection of two philosophical developments which define define contemporary life in the liberal democratic west, considering how democracy has become the only legitimate and publicly defensible regime, while also considering how modern democracy attempts to solve what Leo Strauss called the "theologico-political problem...read more

Product Description: Inspired by the work of prominent University of Notre Dame political philosophers Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert, this volume of essays explores the concept of natural right in the history of political philosophy. The central organizing principle of the collection is the examination of the idea of natural justice, identified in the classical period with natural right and in modernity with the concept of individual natural rights...read more

Product Description: Examining the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in seventeenth century England, Lee Ward traces the historical development of these ideas from the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688 through to the American Revolution...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive research companion examines the theory, practice and historical development of the principle of federalism from the ancient period to the contemporary world. It provides a range of interpretations and integrates theoretical and practical aspects of federalism studies more fully than is usually the case...read more

Product Description: Psychologist Leah Sandborne and her teenage daughter move from the busy life of California back to Leah’s hometown in Virginia to what would seem a sleepy rural life. Leah moves back to find some sense of home and belonging after a painful end to her marriage...read more