4 - The politics of Locke in England and America in the eighteenth century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 August 2009
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The Boston Gazette, 1 March 1773 (advertisement of first American edition of Second Treatise):
This Essay alone, well studied and attended to, will give to every intelligent Reader a better View of the Rights of Men and of Englishmen, and a clearer Insight into the Principles of the British Constitution, than all the Discourses on Government – The Essays in Politicks and Books of Law in our Language. – It should be early and carefully explained by every Father to his Son, by every Preceptor in our public and private Schools to his Pupils, and by every Mother to her Daughter.
Rev. William Jones, in A Letter to the Church of England, 1798 (cited in W. Stevens, Life of The Author, The Theological, Philosophical and Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. William Jones…, London, 1801, 1, 1):
while the age abounds with affected declamations against human authority, there never was a time when men so meanly submitted their understandings to be led away by one another. It is an honour to submit our faculties to God who gave them, but it is base and servile to submit to the usurpations of man in things pertaining to God.
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- Political Obligation in its Historical ContextEssays in Political Theory, pp. 53 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1980
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