
HoP 417 - To Kill a King - The Scottish Reformation
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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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