The Excellencie Of A Free State

Author : Marchamont Nedham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1461931452

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The Excellencie of a Free State by Marchamont Nedham Pdf

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
Publisher : Thomas Hollis Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0865978093

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The Excellencie of a Free-state by Marchamont Nedham Pdf

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
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033490016

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EXCELLENCIE OF A FREE STATE by MARCHAMONT. NEDHAM Pdf

Author : Marchamont Nedham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017769472

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The Excellencie of a Free State. [Edited by R. Barron.] MS. Notes [by J. Mitford]. by Marchamont Nedham Pdf

Author : Marchamont Nedham,Richard Baron,John Adams Library (Boston Public Lib
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 101925534X

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The Excellencie of a Free State by Marchamont Nedham,Richard Baron,John Adams Library (Boston Public Lib Pdf

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 : Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 052103485X

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Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England by Vickie B. Sullivan Pdf

Argues that some English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries synthesized a liberal republicanism.

Author : Warren Chernaik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107153189

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Milton and the Burden of Freedom by Warren Chernaik Pdf

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
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107089891

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Reason of State by Thomas Poole Pdf

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
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009212076

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The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649–1653 by Markku Peltonen Pdf

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.

Author : Ben Lowe
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813057750

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Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency by Ben Lowe Pdf

This volume examines the political ideas behind the construction of the presidency in the U.S. Constitution, as well as how these ideas were implemented by the nation’s early presidents. The framers of the Constitution disagreed about the scope of the new executive role they were creating, and this volume reveals the ways the duties and power of the office developed contrary to many expectations. Here, leading scholars of the early republic examine principles from European thought and culture that were key to establishing the conceptual language and institutional parameters for the American executive office. Unpacking the debates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, these essays describe how the Constitution left room for the first presidents to set patterns of behavior and establish a range of duties to make the office functional within a governmental system of checks and balances. Contributors explore how these presidents understood their positions and fleshed out their full responsibilities according to the everyday operations required to succeed. As disputes continue to surround the limits of executive power today, this volume helps identify and explain the circumstances in which limits can be imposed on presidents who seem to dangerously exceed the constitutional parameters of their office. Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency demonstrates that this distinctive, time-tested role developed from a fraught, historically contingent, and contested process. Contributors: Claire Rydell Arcenas | Lindsay M. Chervinsky | François Furstenberg | Jonathan Gienapp | Daniel J. Hulsebosch | Ben Lowe | Max Skjönsberg | Eric Slauter | Caroline Winterer | Blair Worden | Rosemarie Zagarri A volume in the Alan B. and Charna Larkin Series on the American Presidency

Author : David Loewenstein,Paul Stevens
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781442691001

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Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England by David Loewenstein,Paul Stevens Pdf

Although the poet John Milton was a politically active citizen and polemicist during the English Revolution, little has been written on Milton's concept of nationalism. The first book to examine major aspects of Milton's nationalism in its full complexity and diversity, Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England features fifteen essays by leading international scholars who illuminate the significance of the nation as a powerful imaginative construct in his writings. Informed by a range of critical methods, the essays examine the diverse - sometimes conflicting - and strained expressions of nationhood and national identity in Milton's writings, to address the literary, ethnic, and civic dimensions of his nationalism. These essays enrich our understanding of the imaginative achievements, religious polemics, and political tensions of Milton's poetry and prose, as well as the impact of his writings in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England also illuminates the formation of early-modern nationalism, as well as the complexities of seventeenth-century English politics and religion.

Author : Rachel Hammersley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : France
ISBN : 0861932730

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French Revolutionaries and English Republicans by Rachel Hammersley Pdf

Following the cataclysmic events of 1789 some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas developed about the form this should take and the models on which it could be based, from those of ancient Greece and Rome, to modern republics such as Geneva or the United States of America. However, a small number of thinkers - centred around the radical, Paris-based Cordeliers Club - looked to the writings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republicans for guidance about realising ancient republican ideals in the modern world. This book offers an intellectual history of the Club, through a close analysis of texts and the relationships between their authors. Its main focus is on individual club members and their translations of and borrowings from the works of such thinkers as Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Algernon Sidney and Thomas Gordon: the author shows how the Cordeliers adapted and developed those ideas so as to make them serve contemporary circumstances and concerns, and demonstrates that even after the establishment of a French republic in 1792, members of the Cordeliers Club continued to make use of English republican ideas in order to respond to key constitutional and political questions.

Author : Jamie A. Gianoutsos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478830

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The Rule of Manhood by Jamie A. Gianoutsos Pdf

Explores how classical and gendered conceptions of tyranny shaped early Stuart understandings of monarchy and the development of republican thought.

Author : Blair Worden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199230815

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Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England by Blair Worden Pdf

Here is a new approach to the historical study of literature. A leading historian of the English civil wars looks at the writings of the two great poets of the time. John Milton and Andrew Marvell, and relates them as never before to the dramatic developments which brought about the execution of King Charles and the rise of Oliver Cromwell.

Author : Simon Burrows,Jonathan Conlin,Russell Goulbourne,Valerie Mainz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441174048

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The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds by Simon Burrows,Jonathan Conlin,Russell Goulbourne,Valerie Mainz Pdf

Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death. Not surprisingly, such sensational material has attracted the attention of enthusiasts, scholars and literateurs to 'the strange case of the chevalier d'Eon'. He has also attracted the attention of psychologists and sexologists, and for most of the last century his gender transformation has been viewed through a Freudian lens. His cross-dressing, it was usually assumed, must have a psychosexual explanation. Until the second half of the twentieth century the terms 'Eonist' and 'Eonism' were the standard English words for transvestites and transvestism respectively, but 'Eonism' was also, thanks to Havelock Ellis, widely regarded as a psychological condition or compulsion. However, in the mid-twentieth century, new ideas about gender-identity disorders led to d'Eon being redefined not as a transvestite, but a transsexual - a person who considers their sex to have been 'misassigned'. The essays in this collection contribute to d'Eon's rehabilitation as a figure worthy of scholarly attention and display a variety of disciplinary approaches. Drawing on new research into d'Eon's life, this volume offers original and nuanced readings of how a gender identity could come to be negotiated over time.