Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

John Milton

Constitution Society

2009

39 páginas

1h 18m

ISBN-10: B001UV3RM6

John Milton defends the right of people to execute a guilty sovereign, whether tyrannical or not.
In the text, Milton conjectures about the formation of commonwealths. He comes up with a kind of constitutionalism but not an outright anti-monarchical argument. He gives a theory of how people come into commonwealths and come to elect kings. He explains what the role of a king should be, and conversely what a tyrant is, and why it is necessary to limit a ruler's power through laws and oaths.