Portrait, Vii,424, (Xlviii). Errata Printed At End Of Preface. Original Paneled Calf, Re-Backed To Style In Nineteenth Century With Five Raised Bands, Old Morocco Spine Label, Covers Tooled With Elaborations. Engraved Heraldic Bookplate Of The Earl Of Ellenborough, At Southam De La Bere, With Stamp Showing That It Was Book 31489 From The Library There. Binding Worn, Nicely Refurbished, With New Cords. Contents Near Fine, Clean And Bright, No Foxing Or Damage. Per Wikipedia, Algernon Sidney Or Sydney (1623 ? 1683) Was An English Politician, Republican Political Theorist And Colonel. A Member Of The Middle Part Of The Long Parliament And Commissioner Of The Trial Of King Charles I Of England, He Opposed The King's Execution. Sidney Was Later Charged With Plotting Against Charles Ii, In Part Based On His Most Famous Work, Discourses Concerning Government, Which Was Used By The Prosecution As A Witness At His Trial. He Was Executed For Treason.[1] After His Death, Sidney Was Revered As A "Whig Patriot?Hero And Martyr". The Works Of Algernon Sidney, Along With Those Of Contemporary John Locke, Are Considered A Cornerstone Of Western Thought. Discourses Concerning Government Cost Sidney His Life. However, The Ideas It Put Forth Survived And Ultimately Culminated In The Glorious Revolution In England And The Founding Of The United States. Sidney Directly Opposed The Theory Of Divine Right Of Kings By Suggesting Ideas Such As Limited Government, Voluntary Consent Of The People And The Right Of Citizens To Alter Or Abolish A Corrupt Government. Discourses Concerning Government Has Been Called "The Textbook Of The American Revolution." There Is Still Some Hope That The American People, Or Others, Might Fully Accept Such Ideas, If They Can Only Give Up Each Citizen's Desire To Be King.

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Discourses Concerning Government, to Which Is Added, The Paper He Deliver'd to the Sheriffs Immediately Before His Death. And an Alphabetical Table. The Second Edition Carefully Corrected.

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Tho. [Thomas] Atkinson, London

Publication Date

1705

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

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Frontispiece Portrait

Edition

Second Edition, Corrected

Condition

Very Good

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