William Tyndale,

Obedience of a Christian Man , ed. David Daniell (London: Penguin, 2000). I thank Holly Crocker for bringing Tyndale to my attention.

For Hobbes on conscience, see

Leviathan , ed. J. C. A. Gaskin (Oxford World’s Classics, 1996), especially part 1, chapter 7. A stimulating blog by Stanley Fish adduces Hobbes as a proponent of public (versus private) conscience in relation to discussions of religiously based medical conscience clauses. In his acute analysis, Fish observes that 'one can (and should) relax the obligations of faith when one is not in church’. See

New York Times Opinion , 12 April 2009: (

http://www.opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/conscience-vs- conscience ) (accessed 31 January 2011).

For Aquinas, see St Thomas Aquinas,

Summa Theologica , tr. Fathers of the Dominican Province, vol. 1 (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1947), Part 1, Question 79, Article 13.

The commentator who wants 'a little human rights just now’ is Slaughter,

Human Rights, Inc,

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