This volume is a sequel to the author's earlier work on the
development of European theories of sovereignity and
constitutionalism. Professor Franklin here explains a major
innovation associated with the English Civil Wars. It was only now,
he shows, that there finally emerged a theory of sovereignity and
resistance that was fully compatible with a mixed constitution. The
new conception of resistance in a mixed constitution was to enter
the main tradition via Locke, who stood alone among major writers
of the 1680s in holding that the effect of tyranny by any
constituted power, even by the King alone, was entire dissolution
of the government and the reversion of power to the general
community. When this familiar position is read against the
background of preceding constitutionalist theory, the Second
Treatise reveals a new dimension of novelty and historical
significance.
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