Argues that some English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries synthesized a liberal republicanism.

First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written editorials in the parliamentarian news book Mercurius Politicus, "The Excellencie of a Free State"

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "pub

This historically embedded treatment of theoretical debates about prerogative and reason of state spans over four centuries of constitutional development. Comme

Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, nove