Discourses Concerning Government

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Sidney, Algernon

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Franklin Classics

This book, "Discourses concerning government", by Algernon Sidney,  is a replication of a book originally published before 1704. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

Discourses concerning government (European political thought)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Arno Press

Sidney: Court Maxims (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

This remarkable expression of republican thought has never before been published. Algernon Sidney was among the most unrelenting republican partisans of the seventeenth century, and was executed for his opposition to Charles II. Written during Sidney's continental exile, the vivid Court Maxims was only recently rediscovered. The work presents a lively discussion about the principles of government and the practice of politics, articulating a vital tradition of republicanism in an absolutist age.

Cambridge University Press

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1704 edition. Excerpt: ...we have many approve examples, and occafional particular commands to the contrary....-. 1. To the firft: The point of Paternity being explain'd; the duty of Children to Parents prov'd to proceed from the benefits receiv'd from them, and that the power over them, which at the firft feems to have bin left at large, becaufe it was thought they would never abufe it, has long fince bin much reftrain'd in all civiliz'd Nations, and particularly in our own; We may conclude that men are all made of the fame pafte, and that one ows no more to another than another to him, unlefs for fome benefit receiv'd, or by virtue of fome promife made. The duty arifing from a benefit receiv'd muft be proportionable to it: that which grows from a promife is determin'd by the promife or contract made, according to the true fehfe and meaning of it. He therefore that would know what the BalyIonians, Hebrews, Athenians, or Romans did owe to Nimrod, Saul, Thefeus.or Romulus, muft inquire what benefits were receiv'd from them, or what waspromis'd to them. It cannot be faid that any thing was due to them for the fake of their Parents; they could have no prerogative by birth: Nimrod was the fixth Son of Chujh the Son of Cham, who was the youngeft Son of Noah his Kingdom was ere&amp;ed whilft Noah and his elder Sons Shem and Japhet, as well as Cham, Chujh and his elder Sons were'ftill living. Saul was the Son of Chifo, a man of Benjamin, who Was the youngeft Son of Jacob; and he was chofen in the moft DemocraxicaTway by Lot amongft the whole People. Thtfeus according to the cuftomof the times pretended to be the Son of Neptune-, andft/xttwas fo Well pleas'd with the Soldier that had gotten her with child, that he refolv'd to think or fay that Mars was the Fatherof...

Liberty Classics

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1704 Excerpt: ...we have many approve examples, and occafional particular commands to the contrary..«..-. 1. To the firft: The point of Paternity being explain'd; the duty of Children to Parents prov'd to proceed from the benefits receiv'd from them, and that the power over them, which at the firft feems to have bin left at large, becaufe it was thought they would never abufe it, has long fince bin much reftrain'd in all civiliz'd Nations, and particularly in our own; We may conclude that men are all made of the fame pafte, and that one ows no more to another than another to him, unlefs for fome benefit receiv'd, or by virtue of fome promife made. The duty arifing from a benefit receiv'd muft be proportionable to it: that which grows from a promife is determin'd by the promife or contract made, according to the true fehfe and meaning of it. He therefore that would know what the BalyIonians, Hebrews, Athenians, or Romans did owe to Nimrod, Saul, Thefeus.or Romulus, muft inquire what benefits were receiv'd from them, or what waspromis'd to them. It cannot be faid that any thing was due to them for the fake of their Parents; they could have no prerogative by birth: Nimrod was the fixth Son of Chujh the Son of Cham, who was the youngeft Son of Noah his Kingdom was ere&ed whilft Noah and his elder Sons Shem and Japhet, as well as Cham, Chujh and his elder Sons were'ftill living. Saul was the Son of Chifo, a man of Benjamin, who Was the youngeft Son of Jacob; and he was chofen in the moft DemocraxicaTway by Lot amongft the whole People. Thtfeus according to the cuftomof the times pretended to be the Son of Neptune-, andft/xttwas fo Well pleas'd with the Soldier that had gotten her with child, that he refolv'd to think or fay that Mars was the Fatherof the Children, that ...

Discourses Concerning Government (Liberty Fund Studies in Political Theory)

I have lately undertaken to read Algernon Sidney on government. . . . As often as I have read it, and fumbled it over, it now excites fresh admiration that this work has excited so little interest in the literary world. As splendid an edition of it as the art of printing can produce—as well for the intrinsic merit of the work, as for the proof it brings of the bitter sufferings of the advocates of liberty from that time to this, and to show the slow progress of moral, philosophical, and political illumination in the world—ought to be now printed in America. —John Adams to Thomas Jefferson (1823) Written in response to Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha (1680), the Discourses Concerning Government by Algernon Sidney (1623–1683) has been treasured for more than three centuries as a classic defense of republicanism and popular government. Sidney rejected Filmer's theories of royal absolutism and divine right of kings, insisting that title to rule should be based on merit rather than birth; and republics, he thought, were more likely to honor merit than were monarchies. Like John Milton, Sidney revered and idealized the Commonwealth (1649–1660) as England's noble achievement in the grand tradition of ancient Greece and Rome. Sidney's treatise was published posthumously in 1698, fifteen years after he was executed for complicity in a plot to assassinate Charles II. Sidney's papers, including a draft of the Discourses, were used as evidence against him. Although there is nothing in the work incompatible with constitutional monarchy, the indictment claimed that it was a "false, seditious, and traitorous libel," citing sentences which stated that the king is subject to law and is responsible to the people. Sidney's Discourses was widely read in the colonies and influenced a number of American revolutionary leaders. Thomas G. West is Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas.

Liberty Fund

Legare Street Press

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Filmer, Robert

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Discourses Concerning Government

Discourses concerning government (European political thought)

Sidney: Court Maxims (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Sidney: Court Maxims (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Discourses Concerning Government

Discourses Concerning Government

Discourses Concerning Government (Liberty Fund Studies in Political Theory)

Discourses Concerning Government

Discourses Concerning Government

Discourses Concerning Government: 2