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As with many other advocates of liberty (the Levellers" for example), they were given a derogatory name by their opponents. "Monarcho-machs" means "king fighters or opponents", whereas in fact they were just trying to hold kings accountable to the people for their actions when they overstepped the bounds and threatend the "Salus populi" (the health or well-being of the people). In the absence of a written constitution, legal norms, or the "checks and balances" provided by other powerful bodies such as "Parlaments" (associations of lawyers and jursits), economic "corporations", independent nobles,or an established church, a tyrannical "prince" might have to be restrained by force on the part of the "lesser magistrates", not by the people acting on their own as these jurists hastened to add.
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Boétie, Étienne de la (1530-1563)
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Discours de la servitude volontaire (A Speech on Voluntary Servitude) (1553) Étienne de la Boétie, Discours de la servitude volontaire (1553). Not published in his lifetime but many editions later.
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1553, 1735, 1922
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Ponet, John (c. 1514-1556)
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Shorte Treatise of politike power (1556) John Ponet, A Shorte Treatise of politike pouuer, and of the true Obedience which subiectes owe to kynges and other ciuile Gouernours, with an Exhortacion to all true naturall Englishe men, Compyled by D. I. P. B. R. VV. (Strasbourg: Printed by the heirs of W. Köpfel, 1556).
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1556
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Goodman, Christopher (c. 1520-1603)
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How superior powers oght to be obeyd (1558) Christopher Goodman, How Svperior Powers oght to be obeyd of their subiects: and Wherin they may lawfully by Gods Worde be disobeyed and resisted. Wherin also is declared the cause of all this present miserie in England, and the onely way to remedy the same (Printed at Geneua by Iohn Crispin. 1558).
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1558
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Bèze, Théodore de (1519-1605)
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Droit des magistrats sur leurs subjets (1574) Théodore de Bèze, Du droit des magistrats sur leurs subjets. Traitté très-nécessaire en ce temps pour advertir de leur devoir, tant les magistrats que les subjets. publié par ceux de Magdebourg l'an M.D.L. : et maintenant reveu et augmenté de plusieurs raisons et exemple (Genève: Jacob Stoer, 1578).
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1574
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Hotman, Francis (1524-1590)
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Franco-Gallia (1574) Francis Hotoman, Franco-Gallia: Or, an Account of the Ancient Free State of France (1574).
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1574
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Buchanan, George (1506-1582)
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Jure regni apud Scotos (1574) George Buchanan, De jure regni apud Scotos (On the Rights of the Government over the Scots) (1574).
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1574
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Languet, Hubert (1518-1581)
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Vindiciæ contra tyrannos (1579) Junius Brutus (Hubert Languet), Vindiciæ contra tyrannos: a defence of liberty against tyrants (1579).
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1579
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Mariana, Juan de (1536-1624)
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Rege et Regis Institutione (1599) Juan de Mariana, Ioannis Marianae Hispani, E Soc. Iesu, De Rege Et Regis Institutione Libri III. Ad Philippum III. Hispania Regem Catholicum. (Toleti: apud Petrum Rodericum typo. Regium. 1599). "On the King and the Education of the King".
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1599
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