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HoP 417 - To Kill a King - The Scottish Reformation

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Law of Kingship in the Scots

Buchanan's dialogue on the law of kingship among the Scots was written in late 1560s. The text is built around a fundamental contrast between the king and his opposite, the tyrant. Buchanan stresses their continued authority over the laws and the king. Because sovereignty has a popular constitutional basis, people have right to depose an unjust monarch even to kill them if necessary.

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