Publication: Roman rights talk: subjective rights in Cicero and Livy
Roman rights talk: subjective rights in Cicero and Livy
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Edelstein, D., & Straumann, B. (2022). Roman rights talk: subjective rights in Cicero and Livy. History of Political Thought, 43(4), 637–659. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/hpt/2022/00000043/00000004/art00002
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While most scholars today recognize that Roman writers occasionally used ius to denote a subjective right, the extent and reasons for this usage have not been well studied. In this article, we offer an analysis, based on a statistical survey, of how Cicero and Livy used ius to designate a range of subjective rights. We also trace this usage back to the basic Ciceronian metaphor of the populus as a kind of societas . Rights, in the Roman context, emerged out of this legal-commercial comparison, in which citizens (or even members of dif
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- Edelstein, Dan
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Edelstein, D., & Straumann, B. (2022). Roman rights talk: subjective rights in Cicero and Livy. History of Political Thought, 43(4), 637–659. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/hpt/2022/00000043/00000004/art00002
