III. The English Revolution and Locke's ‘Two Treatises of Government’
1956; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s1474691300000329
ISSN2051-9818
Autores Tópico(s)American Constitutional Law and Politics
ResumoJohn Locke received the following letter from the Hague on 31 January 1689, whilst he was waiting in Rotterdam for a ship to take him home, now that his exile in Holland could come to an end after the Revolution: I have been very ill this fortnight. The beginning was what is called the disease of one's country, impatience to be there, but it ended yesterday with violence, as all great things do but kings. Ours went out like a farthing candle, and has given us by this Convention an occasion not only of mending the Government but of melting it down and making all new, which makes me wish you were there to give them a right scheme of government, having been infected by that great man Lord Shaftesbury.
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