Download or read book A Treatise of Monarchy written by Philip Hunton and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new, complete and unabridged critical edition of Hunton's Treatise of Monarchy (1643). Written during the crises of the English Civil War, Hunton's Treatise recognized the fundamental shift that was occuring between King and Parliament. On one level the Treatise attempted to provide an effective, statesmanlike solution that aimed to end hostilities between the Crown and the State. On another, however, is developed an explicit and novel theory regarding the ultimate locus of sovereign authority. Hunton invoked the concept of the inalienable moral right, a radical principle that could be used to justify revolution and the wider doctrines of political individualism. A Treatise fo Monarchie is then both the work of a conservative moderator and also an early harbringer of modernity, exploring the frontiers of a future liberal society.