
HoP 408 - Constitutional Conventions - the Huguenots
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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How to Remove a Tyrannical King
Beza and Monet see people as superiors of the king, even if they owe him their obedience. In a contrast to what we saw in Hauntman, it is natural law that the people would never have agreed to shackle themselves to the will of a tyrant. The ecumenical appeal of popular sovereignty might help to explain why the most radical French political treatise of the era was penned by someone who never left the church,. Etienne de la Boitie.
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