American states of nature : the origins of independence, 1761-1775 / Mark Somos.

• List of figures -- Acknowledgments. Introduction : The background and varieties of state of nature theorizing -- The distinctive American state of nature discourse -- Method, scope, and outline. The state of nature: sources and traditions : The uncivilized state of nature -- Advertising America -- Nathaniel Ames's "Almanac" (1763) -- The state of nature in pre-revolutionary colonial education. Rights and constitutions: from "Paxton's Case" to the Stamp Act : John Adams, James Otis, and "Paxton's Case" (1761) -- Abraham Williams, election sermon (1762) -- Otis, "Rights" and "Considerations" (1764-65) -- Thomas Pownall. The Stamp Act and the state of nature : "Warren's Case" (1765-67) -- Enter Blackstone -- Boston against the Stamp Act -- The road to repeal -- Richard Bland, "Inquiry" (1766). Creating and contesting the American state of nature : The constitutive state of nature -- "English Liberties" (1680-1774) and "British Liberties" (1766-67) -- Ancient constitutionalism -- The freedoms of conscience, speech, religion, and the press -- Loyalist versus patriot states of nature (1769-72). The turn to self-defense : Colonial independence -- The Boston pamphlet -- Christian resistance -- The Boston Tea Party and the political economy of the state of nature -- Rival epistemologies. The First Continental Congress: the consolidation of an American constitutional trope : Galloway's plan and the state of nature -- Loyalist versus patriot states of nature (1773-76). On slavery and race : Chattel slavery -- Native Americans. Conclusion. Appendix 1: a manuscript source for John Adams's lost abstract of James Otis Jr.'s speech in the 1761 "Paxton's Case" -- Appendix 2: recent and ongoing Supreme Court cases that would benefit from an accurate historical reconstruction of the American state of nature discourse -- Bibliography -- Index.

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