The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates is a book by John Milton, in which he defends the right of people to execute a guilty sovereign.
In the text, Milton conjectures about the formation of commonwealths. He comes up with a kind of constitutionalism but not an outright anti-monarchical argument. He gives a theory of how people come into commonwealths and come to elect kings. He explains what the role of a king should be, and conversely what a tyran...
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The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
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John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost and for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica.
He was both an accomplished, scholarly man of letters...
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