Justifying Revolution

Justifying Revolution

The American Clergy's Argument for Political Resistance, 1750-1776

Steward, Gary L.

Oxford University Press Inc

10/2021

232

Dura

Inglês

9780197565353

15 a 20 dias

478

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: "The great part of it was stolen": Jonathan Mayhew's Doctrine of Political Resistance

Chapter 2: "Never to be forgotten": Governor Andros, the Glorious Revolution, and Resistance to the Stamp Act

Chapter 3: "No Bishop, No Tyrant!": The Debate over American Bishops and the Threat to Religious Liberty

Chapter 4: "An established law of our nature": Self-Defense and Resistance Doctrine

Chapter 5: "One of the best causes of the world": The British Clergy's Support of American Resistance

Chapter 6: "As differentELas light is from darkness": John Witherspoon's Support of Independence

Chapter 7: Conclusion

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