St. Thomas Aquinas and Law

By nature all men are equal in liberty but not in other endowments.
–        Thomas Aquinas

A good place to start.

Freedom’s Progress?: A History of Political Thought, by Gerard Casey

Thomas Aquinas lived for about fifty years, during the middle of the thirteenth century.  He was at the heart of what was one of the most intellectually revolutionary periods in European history:

…he was one of those who led the successful fight to have the newly translated (into Latin) works of Aristotle accept...