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Defense of the English People Against Salmasius

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  • Poet John Milton
    In John Milton: Antimonarchical tracts

    …imbued with personal invective, Milton’s Defense of the English People Against Salmasius (1651), a Latin tract, fastens on inconsistencies in Salmasius’s argument. Milton echoes much of what he had propounded in earlier tracts: that the execution of a monarch is supported by authorities from Classical antiquity to the early modern…

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