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to show why resistance can be justified in the eyes of the law. However, it stops short of inviting any individual to judge a king. Rather, individuals could only take up arms if they are led by an inferior magistrate (so termed to distinguish them from the superior magistrate, i.e., the king). This
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The answer to each of these questions is an affirmative. The work is interesting for the grounds that it gives a justification for popular resistance. The work merges the theological view of
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in 1579. Its author remains uncertain, since it was written under the pseudonym of "Stephen Junius Brutus". Likely candidates for its authorship include
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considers whether foreign princes can legally support a popular rising against a king on the conditions set out in the first three questions.
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are treated briskly and concern whether a people are bound to obey or are able to resist their king when he breaks the
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The work proceeds through four questions concerning the response of the people to their king. The
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Scholars have debated the extent to which the tract was influential to Roman and canon law.
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considers whether the people can resist a king on the grounds that he is destroying the
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Les huguenots et le roi: le combat politique de Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, 1572-1600
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conjectured that the tract was a collaboration between Languet and de Mornay.
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Baker, Ernest (1930). "The Authorship of the Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos".
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Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos: A Defence of Liberty Against Tyrants
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and in comparison to other Reformed thinkers such as
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Acton, John (1906). "The Huguenots and the League".
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Index


Huguenot
Basel
Hubert Languet
Philippe de Mornay
Gerardina Tjaberta van Ysselsteyn
divine law
commonwealth
covenant
contract
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
Christopher Goodman
John Knox


University of Wisconsin History Department
Lectures on Modern History
doi
10.1017/S1474691300002456
JSTOR
3020705
Les huguenots et le roi: le combat politique de Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, 1572-1600
ISBN
9782600006675
"Law in the "Vindiciae, contra tyrannos": A Vindication"
ISSN
0018-246X
"Rethinking Republicanism: "Vindiciae, contra tyrannos" in Context"
ISSN
0018-246X

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