Download or read book The Circle of Rights Expands written by Arthur P. Monahan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Circle of Rights Expands explores ideas of limit on political authority through a fresh reading of the political philosophy of the fifteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, including the work of representative thinkers such as Locke, Rousseau, Athusius, Grotius, Hobbes, and Hume. Arthur Monahan examines problems of sovereignty, religious toleration, and individual rights, emphasizing the relationship between such individual rights and economic change.