Preface
Part I: 1. George Buchanan and the Anti-Monarchomachs J. H. Burns
2. The ancient constitution revisited William Klein
3. Arminianism: the controversy that never was William Lamont
4. Scienta civilis in classical rhetoric and in the early Hobbes Quentin Skinner
Part II: 5. Parliamentary sovereignty: a very English absolutism Michael Mendle
6. The civil religion of Thomas Hobbes Richard Tuck
7. The rapture of motion: James Harrington's republicanism Jonathan Scott
8. Casuistry to Newcastle: The Prince in the world of the book Conal Condren
Part III: 9. Between Lambeth and Leviathan: Samuel Parker on the Church of England and political order Gordon J. Schochet
10. Priestcraft and the birth of Whiggism Mark Goldie
11. The right to resist: Whig resistance theory in the Revolution of 1688-9 Lois G. Schwoerer
12. Placing the Two Treatises James Tully
Part IV: 13. Shaftesbury, politeness and the politics of religion Lawrence Klein
14. Propriety, property and prudence: David Hume and the defence of the revolution Nicholas Phillipson
15. The rhapsody of public debt: David Hume and the voluntary state bankruptcy Istvan Hont
16. Universal monarchy and the liberties of Europe: David Hume's critique of an English Whig doctrine John Robertson
Part V: 17. A discourse of sovereignty: observations on the work in progress J. G. A. Pocock
A bibliography of the writings of J. G. A. Pocock
Index.

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