Discourses Concerning Government
''Discourses Concerning Government'' is a political work published in 1698, and based on a manuscript written in the early 1680s by the English Whig activist Algernon Sidney who was executed on a treason charge in 1683. It is one of the treatises on governance produced by the Exclusion Crisis of the last years of the reign of Charles II of England. Modern scholarship regards the 1698 book as "fairly close" to Sidney's manuscript. According to Christopher Hill, it "handed on many of the political ideas of the English revolutionaries to eighteen-century Whigs, American and French republicans." Views The ''Discourses'' was written in the period when John Locke was working on his '' Second Treatise on Government'', and the books have common features. They have been described together as "essentially radical and popular theories of resistance." Jonathan Scott, however, has proposed that Sidney was "far more inclined to commonwealth principles and far more predisposed to resistance ...
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Algernon Sidney 1622-1683 Discourses 1698
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