
HoP 408 - Constitutional Conventions - the Huguenots
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Rights of Magistrates and the Rights of Subjects
Theodor Beza's On the Rights of Magistrates Over Their Subjects was published without his name in 1574. He really intends to address the duties of magistrates and the rights of subjects. Those rights are also explored in the most famous Uguno political treatise, Vindicii Contra Tyranos. Both Beza and Monet are influenced by Hauden, but they defend constitutionalism on more abstract grounds.
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