social contract
277–278
The City of God(Augustine)
22–23
civil disobedience 60–61
Ghandi and 119
King and 173
Rousseau and 265, 294
Civilization and Its Discon-
tents(Freud) 116
civil liberties 61, 108
civil religion 61–62, 265
fascism and 102
Puritanism and 308
civil rights movement
civil disobedience and
60, 60
Jesse Jackson and 161
Kennedy and 171
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and 172–174, 173
civil society 62–63, 134
Civil War, American 9–10,
15, 285
classes 63–64, 138
classical political thought
64 See alsoGreek politi-
cal theory; Roman politi-
cal thought
Erasmus, Catholicism
and 96–97
freedom 114
justice, concept of 166
rationalism 252
Renaissance and 256
rights, concept of 261
state, descriptions of
284
Strauss’ comparison to
modern 286
theocracy 293
virtue, concept of 302
classical republicanism 257
in American political
thought 9
Bolingbroke and 36
Harrington and 133
Jefferson and 163
patronage and 229
Pocock and 234
Seneca and 274
Clean Air and Water Act,
U.S. 95
Clinton, Bill 82–83
Cohen, Arthur 144–145
Coke, Edward 12, 64
cold war 204
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
64–65
colonialism 155–156
commandments 65–66
Commentaries on the Laws of
England(Blackstone) 34
“Common Sense” (Paine)
226
commonwealth 35, 76,
133, 209
The Commonwealth of
Oceana(Harrington) 133
communicative action,
Habermas’ theory of
131–132
communism/communists
66–67See alsoMarxism;
Marx, Karl; specific coun-
tries
absolutism 2–3
alienation 115
anarchism and 11, 12
anarchist 124, 175
aristocracy and 19
in China 55
concept of alienation 7
economic democracy
81
economic theory of
value 177–178
Engels’s theory of
93–94
environmental-justice
movement 95
equality and 96
ethics and 97, 279
Gramsci, Italian
125–126
historicism and 140
human nature and 148
industrialism and
157–158
John Birch Society and
164
leftist ideology and
179–180
legitimate government,
definition of 181
Lenin 182–183, 183
Levellers agricultural
183–184
Luxemburg’s revolu-
tionary 192McCarthyism and 205
Menshevik Party 206
orthodox 224
Owen’s agricultural
224
Proudhon’s critique of
property under 246
reification 256
Russian Bolshevik Party
37
Sartre, existentialism
and 270
social democrats
101–102, 278
Soviet Union 39–40,
282
totalitarianism
295–296
Trotsky 296–298
The Communist Manifesto
(Engels, Marx) 94
communitarianism 67
Benjamin Barber 29
totalitarianism 296
computers and privacy 242
Comte, Isidore Auguste
67–68, 237
conciliarism 68–69, 201
The Condition of the Working
Class in England(Engels)
94
Condorcet, Marie-Jean-
Antoine-Nicolas de Cari-
tat 69
The Confessing Church
(Bonhoeffer) 37
Confessions(Augustine) 22
Confucianism 54, 55
congress 69–70
The Conquest of Bread
(Kropotkin) 176
conscientious objection 70,
225
consent of the governed
70–71,226, 277, 307
conservatism/conservatives
71–72See alsoChristian
Right; Republican Party;
Right/Right-wing
in American political
thought 10
Bennett’s Empower
America 32–33
British 41–42, 71, 146,
259–260Buckley’s libertarianism
and 38–39
fundamentalism and
117
hierarchical view 138
and homosexuality 145
and idealism 153
ideology of 154
Islamic political
thought 159–160
John Birch Society and
164
neo-Conservatives 219
orthodox culture 77
privacy issues and
241–242
realism and 255
Strauss, classical/mod-
ern comparisons
285–286
Will’s classical
306–307
Constantine 56, 72
Constitution, U.S., 72
Antifederalists vs.Fed-
eralists 9, 15, 45,
132, 136
Bill of Rights 149, 218
checks and balances 3,
54, 195, 274–275, 309
church and state sepa-
ration 57
Eighteenth Amendment
(Prohibition) 243
The Federalist Papers
104–105
First Amendment 61,
108,240–241
Fourteenth Amend-
ment (U.S. Constitu-
tion) 96
pluralism 233
slavery and 1
social contract theory
277
constitutional law, U.S. 72,
179
and American liberal-
ism 186
basis in English com-
mon law 64
privacy and 241–242
The Constitution of the
Church and State
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