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This historiography demonstrates how theorists have rationalized killing the innocent in war. It shows how moral arguments about killing the innocent respond to material conditions, and it explains how we have arrived at the post-World War II convention.

Introduction -- Population discourses in the seventeenth century -- Locke and the proliferation of 'hands' -- The right of withdrawal and the colonial context -- Locke on naturalization -- Territorial rights, exclusion, and the great art of government.

Intro -- Title Page -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Conception and Birth -- Chapter 2: Infancy -- Chapter 3: The Toddler Years -- Chapter 4: Childhood -- Chapter 5: Elementary School -- Chapter 6: Preteens -- Chapter 7: Tweens -- Chapter 8: Puberty -- Chapter 9: Early Teens -- Chapter 10: Growing Pains -- Chapter 11: High School -- Chapter 12: Graduation -- Chapter 13: College -- Chapter 14: On Your Own -- Chapter 15: Final Exams -- Chapter 16: Adulthood -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Bliss Island Retreat -- Copyright.

AbstractThis article argues that Hobbes was actively engaged in the debates about population size as a component of his broader approach to political economy. By the seventeenth century, beliefs about economic well-being routinely turned back onto the question of population size. This article situates Hobbes's arguments about populations in and among the common arguments for the movement of people in the seventeenth century. Hobbes rejected the natural law tradition of hospitality, which required that states take care of foreigners, and populationist arguments, which assumed that economic progress was predicated on rapid population growth. Specifically, this article will show that Hobbes held a view common to the late Tudor period; namely, a wise sovereign should be actively engaged in regulating population inflows and outflows. Not only did this require careful management of domestic procreative policies, but it also had implications for colonization and war-making.

Throughout the 1690s there were several high-profile parliamentary debates about lowering interest rates from 6 to 4 percent. Locke's involvement in these policy debates is significant. In this period, he circulated at least one important pamphlet on this issue to various Members of Parliament. The purpose of this article is to illuminate the links between Locke's arguments against interest rate reduction and immigration policy. Locke's essay "For a General Naturalization" (1693) employs some of the same pro-naturalization formulations that Josiah Child uses in A New Discourse of Trade (1693), a pamphlet that was ostensibly published in support of the parliamentary proposal for lower interest rates. Even though Locke had a long history with pro-naturalization arguments, the framework of his essay on naturalization is very likely an extension of those debates with Child about interest rates from 1691/2.