Originally published in 1987. This book analyses what Englishmen
understood by the term contract in political discussions during the
late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It provides
evidence for reconsidering conventional accounts of the
relationships between political ideas, groups and practices of the
period. But also suggests cause for examining the general history
of modern European contract theory. It considers contract as a term
appearing in a spectrum of works from philosophical treatise to
sermons and polemical pamphlets. Looking at the various
vocabularies relating to contractualist ideas, the author suggests
that standard histories of social contract theory and particular
histories of English political thought during this unstable period
have misrepresented the meaning of the term contract as a key term
in political argument. He shows that there were in fact three
different categories of contract theory but allows that the various
kinds of contractualism did share certain broad features. This
study of a crucial age in the history of appeals to contract in
political argument will be of interest to political philosophers
and historians.
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