Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner (eds.), ‘Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain’

What legal maxim was reinforced as early as 1660 to block resistance?

The King Can Do No Wrong” — reinforced by the presiding judge at the regicides’ trial

How does Schwoerer describe Whig resistance theory in the Restoration era?

It was “deeply embedded in restoration culture”

What 1661 act made speaking against royal authority treason?

The “Act to Preserve the Person and Government of the King”

When was The “Act to Preserve the Person and Government of the King” passed?

1661

What oath was imposed in 1661 to suppress resistance?

The ‘Non-Resistance oath’, swearing that “it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king”

What did Roger L’Estrange compile in 1663?

A list of seditious books and propositions, approved by the king to control radical print culture

Who compiled a list of seditious books in 1663?

Roger L’Estrange

Who was Roger L’Estrange?

the first Surveyor of the Imprimery

When were many banned books burned in Oxford?

On 21st July 1683

What happened to many books banned in the 1660s by 1688–89?

They were reprinted, including George Buchanan’s De jure regni apud Scotos (1579)

at book did George Buchanan write?

De jure regni apud Scotos (1579)

When did George Buchanan write De jure regni apud Scotos?

1579

What was John Locke’s ‘original contract’?

agreement of every ind in the ‘Body Politick’ to submit to the decisions of the majority of that society and to enable the formation of a lawful soc, results in the genesis of a lawful gov

What did whig politicians associate John Locke’s ‘original contract’ with?

With the oath English kings took at their coronation

How did whig pamphleteer Samuel Johnson interpret the coronation oath?

As the “‘fundamental contract’ or ‘downright bargain’” that binds the king to uphold the law - If the king failed to do so, the people were released from their contractual relationship and had a legitimate right to resist him

Who interpreted the coronation oath as the “‘fundamental contract’ or ‘downright bargain’” that binds the king to uphold the law?

Whig pamphleteer Samuel Johnson

What was Locke’s fundamental belief?

Referring to the ‘Native and Original Right’ of society to preserve itself, Locke believed that people had the right to prevent as well as resist tyranny

When was John Locke’s second treatise?

1689

In Locke’s Second Treatise (1689), what legitimates resistance?

“when there occurred a long train of Abuses .. . all tending the same way” (as Locke put it) was resistance against the monarch legitimated

How did A Homily on Obedience, 1547 define a king?

God’s lieutenant, vicegerent and highest minster

What is Pro popolo adversus tyrannos?

The principle that people have a right “to rid themselves of any ruler whom they found simply incompatible”

What is the term for the principle that people have a right “to rid themselves of any ruler whom they found simply incompatible”?

Pro popolo adversus tyrannos

How did Whig writers use the Bible to support resistance?

By citing biblical passages to assert their “right, as free-born men, to be Govern’d as seem to them best”

What was Pro popolo adversus tyrannos an example of?

an extreme extent of anti-absolutist sentiment