1st Edition

The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 1 From the 1690s to the 1830s

By Mark Goldie Copyright 2000
    464 Pages
    by Routledge

    Locke has iconic status as the "founder of Western liberalism", yet his legacy is contested by both conservatives and social democrats. These volumes contain over 60 important texts, with scholarly annotation and explanatory headnotes, that debate Locke's political ideas.

    Volume 1: The Glorious Revolution Defended, 1690-1704, Introduction Textual conventions Citation of Locke’s Two Treatises 1690-1704 Further reading Chronology of Events The Glorious Revolution Defended, 1690-1704 Political Aphorisms: or, the True Maxims of Government Displayed (1690) Extracts from The Fundamental Constitution of the English Government. Proving King William and Queen Mary our Lawful and Rightful King and Queen (1690) The Speech of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford, Lord Gray of Grooby, &c. at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the County of Leicester, at Michaelmas, 1691 (1692) Third Dialogue from Bibliotheca Politica: or a Discourse by way of Dialogue (1692) Preface from A Brief Disquisition of the Law of Nature, according to the Principles and Method laid down in the Reverend Dr. Cumberland’s (the now Lord Bishop of Peterborough’s) Latin Treatise on that Subject. An Essay concerning Obedience to the Supreme Powers, and the Duty Of Subjects in all Revolutions (1694) The Reception of Locke’s Politics: volume 1 The Case of Ireland’s being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated (1698) An Essay on the Lacedaemonian Government (1698) A Sermon preach’d before the Honourable House of Commons, January the 30th. 1699/1700(1700) Extracts from Anglia Libera: or the Limitation and Succession of the Crown of England Explain’d and Asserted (1701) The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, Examined and Asserted (1702) Dedication from Sanguis Carolinus Exclamans: Two Sermons more Impartially Arraigning the Horrid Murther of King Charles I (1702) Preface from Liberty Asserted. A Tragedy (1704)

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    Edited by Mark Goldie