The Excellencie Of A Free State

Author : Marchamont Nedham
Publisher : Thomas Hollis Library
ISBN 13 : 9780865978096
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Excellencie of a Free-state written by Marchamont Nedham and published by Thomas Hollis Library. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written editorials in the parliamentarian news book Mercurius Politicus, "The Excellencie of a Free State" addressed a dilemma in English politics, namely, what kind of government should the Commonwealth adopt? One possibility was to revert to the ancient constitution and create a Cromwellian monarchy. The alternative was the creation of parliamentary sovereignty, in which there would be a "due and orderly succession of supreme authority in the hands of the people's representatives". Nedham was convinced that only the latter would "best secure the liberties and freedoms of the people from the encroachments and usurpations of tyranny."

Author : Marchamont Nedham
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ISBN 13 : 9781461931454
Total Pages : 321 pages
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Download or read book The Excellencie of a Free State written by Marchamont Nedham and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written editorials in the parliamentarian newsbook Mercurius Politicus, The Excellencie of a Free-Stateaddressed a dilemma in English politics, namely, what kind of government should the Commonwealth adopt? One possibility was to revert to the ancient constitution and create a Cromwellian monarchy. The alternative was the creation of parliamentary sovereignty, in which there would be a due and orderly succession of supreme authority in the hands of the people's representatives. Nedham was convinced that only the latter would best secure the liberties and freedoms of the people from the encroachments and usurpations of tyranny. Marchamont Nedham (1620-1678) was a polemicist, pamphleteer, and editor of Mercurius Politicus. Blair Worden is Research Professor of History, Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Author : MARCHAMONT. NEDHAM
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ISBN 13 : 9781033490013
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Download or read book EXCELLENCIE OF A FREE STATE written by MARCHAMONT. NEDHAM and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marchamont Nedham
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019255346
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Download or read book The Excellencie of a Free State written by Marchamont Nedham and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Marchamont Nedham
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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book The Excellencie of a Free State. [Edited by R. Barron.] MS. Notes [by J. Mitford]. written by Marchamont Nedham and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521034852
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England written by Vickie B. Sullivan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that some English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries synthesized a liberal republicanism.

Author : Warren Chernaik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107153182
Total Pages : 285 pages
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Download or read book Milton and the Burden of Freedom written by Warren Chernaik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the unresolved tensions in Milton's writings, as he grapples with the paradox of freedom in a universe ruled by an all-powerful God.

Author : Thomas Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316352358
Total Pages : 315 pages
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Download or read book Reason of State written by Thomas Poole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historically embedded treatment of theoretical debates about prerogative and reason of state spans over four centuries of constitutional development. Commencing with the English Civil War and the constitutional theories of Hobbes and the Republicans, it moves through eighteenth-century arguments over jealousy of trade and commercial reason of state to early imperial concerns and the nineteenth-century debate on the legislative empire, to martial law and twentieth-century articulations of the state at the end of empire. It concludes with reflections on the contemporary post-imperial security state. The book synthesises a wealth of theoretical and empirical literature that allows a link to be made between the development of constitutional ideas and global realpolitik. It exposes the relationship between internal and external pressures and designs in the making of the modern constitutional polity and explores the relationship between law, politics and economics in a way that remains rare in constitutional scholarship.

Author : Thomas M. Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107089891
Total Pages : 315 pages
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Download or read book Reason of State written by Thomas M. Poole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original work on the important idea of reason of state and British and imperial history and constitutional theory.

Author : Markku Peltonen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009212079
Total Pages : 275 pages
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Download or read book The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649–1653 written by Markku Peltonen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English republicanism has long been a major theme in the history of political thought, but the years of the English free state are often overlooked. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era, The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649–1653 offers a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism. Markku Peltonen explores the arguments in defence of the English free state and demonstrates the profound importance of the republican period. The pamphleteers who defended the free state maintained that the people, or their representatives, could alter the form of government whenever they deemed it advantageous, put forward powerful anti-monarchical arguments and widely shared the republican conviction that individual freedom could only materialise in a free state. Peltonen also highlights the unprecedented debate over whether the free state was an aristocracy or democracy and shows how, for the first time in English history, democracy was not only robustly defended but understood as representative.