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Religious toleration, and political liberty, 105
Renuntio
("renunciation of rights"), in Middle Ages, 49
Res
("things"), in Roman law, 27
Rescript (decretal letter), 48;
as legal precedent, 130;
in private cases, 130
Resistance, right of, 40, 78, 79
Responsa
("legal opinions"), of emperors, 130

 

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Revolution, right to political, 72
Rhodes, P. J., 123
Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia
, 174
Rights: derived from natural law, 71, 84, 95, 169, 175;
derived from social convention, 70;
enumeration of, and Ninth Amendment, 168-69;
government, not nature, as source of, 170;
individual, in Bill of Rights, 93, 96-97, 169;
individual, danger to, in will of majority, 171;
individual, no theory of, in antiquity, 16, 41, 169, 184, 198n.71;
individual, and social contract, 72;
inhering in individual, 67-68;
James Madison and, 170;
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