Self-Evident Truths: Being a Discourse on the Origins and Development of the First Principles of American Government -- Popular Sovereignty, Natural Rights, and Balance and Separation of Powers

'Self-Evident Truths' returns to the eighteenth-century meanings of key moral and political doctrines underlying American government--principles that we continue to recite although their meanings have changed with time. In this far-reaching book, Paul K. Conkin investigates in detail three ideas: popular sovereignty, natural rights, and balance and separation of powers.