Kody W. Cooper is UC Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Justin Buckley Dyer is Professor of Government and Executive Director of the Civitas Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.

'Readers of the book will reconsider many of the now conventional claims about the origin and purpose of the American regime … Highly recommended.' D. P. Ramsey, Choice

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Classical and Christian origins; 2. God and nature's law in the pamphlet debates; 3. Thomas Jefferson, nature's God, and the theological foundations of natural-rights republicanism; 4. Reason, revelation, and revolution; 5. Providence and natural law in the war for independence; 6. Reason, will, and popular sovereignty; 7. The law of nature in James Wilson's Lectures on Law; 8. Conclusion: Immanence, transcendence, and the American political order.

Kody W. Cooper is UC Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Justin Buckley Dyer is Professor of Government and Executive Director of the Civitas Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.

'Readers of the book will reconsider many of the now conventional claims about the origin and purpose of the American regime … Highly recommended.' D. P. Ramsey, Choice

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Classical and Christian origins; 2. God and nature's law in the pamphlet debates; 3. Thomas Jefferson, nature's God, and the theological foundations of natural-rights republicanism; 4. Reason, revelation, and revolution; 5. Providence and natural law in the war for independence; 6. Reason, will, and popular sovereignty; 7. The law of nature in James Wilson's Lectures on Law; 8. Conclusion: Immanence, transcendence, and the American political order.

Kody W. Cooper is UC Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Justin Buckley Dyer is Professor of Government and Executive Director of the Civitas Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.

'Readers of the book will reconsider many of the now conventional claims about the origin and purpose of the American regime … Highly recommended.' D. P. Ramsey, Choice

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Classical and Christian origins; 2. God and nature's law in the pamphlet debates; 3. Thomas Jefferson, nature's God, and the theological foundations of natural-rights republicanism; 4. Reason, revelation, and revolution; 5. Providence and natural law in the war for independence; 6. Reason, will, and popular sovereignty; 7. The law of nature in James Wilson's Lectures on Law; 8. Conclusion: Immanence, transcendence, and the American political order.