First published 1680
Patriarcha, or the Natural Power of Kings
Patriarcha, or the Natural Power of Kings by Robert Filmer is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Robert Filmer
- First published
- 1680
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- London: Richard Chiswell, 1680; Online Library of Liberty edition
- License
- Public domain by publication date.
Sir Robert Filmer's defense of the divine right of kings, written before the English Civil War and published posthumously in 1680. He claims that kings hold power by descent from Adam's fatherly authority and that no people may limit it. Locke answered the book in the First Treatise of his Two Treatises of Government.
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8 chapters · 27,982 words · free to read here
- The COPY of a LETTER
- THE CONTENTS.
- CHAP I.: That the first Kings were Fathers of Families.
- CHAP. II.: It is unnatural for the People to Govern, or Chose Governours.
- CHAP. III.: Positive Laws do not infringe the Natural and Fatherly Power of Kings.
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… filmer revival took place, his collected essays being published in 1679, and his most famous work, Patriarcha or The Natural Power of Kings, written in the late 1630s or early 1640s, was printed for the first time the following year.
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