Discourses Concerning Government

Name: Discourses Concerning Government
Price: 11.77 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780865971424

ISBN-10: 0865971420

ISBN-13: 9780865971424

Edition: 2nd (Revised)

Authors: Algernon SIDNEY, Thomas G. West

List price: $14.50

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $15.03

Marketplace

4 new & used from $11.77

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Written in response to Sir Robert Filmer's "Patriarcha" (1680), the "Discourses Concerning Government" by Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) has been respected for more than three centuries as a classic defence 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 on birth; and republics, he thought, were more likely to honour merit than were monarchies. Like Milton, Sidney revered and idealised 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, 15 years…

Book details

List price: $14.50
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 645
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English