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Summary
Author Biography
Mark Somos is Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow and Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and co-editor-in-chief of Grotiana. He is the author of Secularisation and the Leiden Circle, co-editor (with László Kontler) of Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought, and co-author (with Dániel Margócsy and Stephen Joffe) of The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. The background and varieties of state of nature theorizing
1.2. The distinctive American state of nature discourse
1.3. Method, scope, and outline
2. The state of nature: sources and traditions
2.1. The uncivilized state of nature
2.2. Advertising America
2.3. Nathaniel Ames' Almanac (1763)
2.4. The state of nature in pre-revolutionary colonial education
3. Rights and constitutions: from Paxton's case to the Stamp Act
3.1. John Adams, James Otis and Paxton's Case (1761)
3.2. Abraham Williams, Election Sermon (1762)
3.3. Otis, Rights and Considerations (1764-65)
3.4. Thomas Pownall
4. The Stamp Act and the state of nature
4.1. Warren's Case (1765-67)
4.2. Enter Blackstone
4.3. Boston against the Stamp Act
4.4. The road to repeal
4.5. Richard Bland, Inquiry (1766)
5. Creating, contesting and consolidating an American state of nature
5.1. The constitutive state of nature
5.2. English Liberties (1680-1774) and British Liberties (1766-67)
5.3. Ancient constitutionalism
5.4. The freedoms of conscience, speech, religion, and the press
5.5. Loyalist vs patriot states of nature (1769-72)
6. The turn to self-defense
6.1. Colonial independence
6.2. The Boston Pamphlet
6.3. Christian resistance
6.4. The Boston Tea Party and the political economy of the state of nature
6.5. Rival epistemologies
7. The First Continental Congress: the consolidation of an American constitutional trope
7.1. Galloway's Plan and the state of nature
7.2. Loyalist vs Patriot states of nature (1773-76)
8. On slavery and race
8.1. Chattel slavery
8.2. Native Americans
9. Conclusion
Appendix I.
Appendix II.
Bibliography
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