Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674Princeton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 392 páginas Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equality before the law. |
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... (1563) located the authority of government in “the queen's majesty”—that is, the “prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly princes in Holy Scripture by God himself, [to] rule all estates and Introduction • 9.
... rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God.”16 Even those sixteenth-century writers who did imagine a contractual view of the origins of government often presented consent as compatible with assent, or even coercion ...
... rule,” Charles attempted to govern by royal prerogative and to raise the funds needed for the unpopular war against the Scots without the consent of Parliament. Such extralegal action mobilized the parliamentary opposition and ...
... rules for the interpretation of Roman law found in Digest 50.16, “de verborum significatione.”37 Even more than his predecessors, however, Grotius was acutely aware of the political implications of the norms of interpretation. In ...
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