Discourses Concerning Government

Discourses Concerning Government is a political work published in 1698, and based on a manuscript written in the early 1680s by the English Whig activist Algernon Sidney who was executed on a treason charge in 1683. It is one of the treatises on governance produced by the Exclusion Crisis of the last years of the reign of Charles II of England.^[1] Modern scholarship regards the 1698 book as "fairly close" to Sidney's manuscript.^[2] According to Christopher Hill, it "handed on many of the political ideas of the English revolutionaries to eighteen-century Whigs, American and French republicans."^[3]

^ Ashcraft, Richard (13 July 2021). Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government. Princeton University Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-1-4008-2342-0.
^ Brown, Michael (30 September 2015). A Political Biography of John Toland. Routledge. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-317-31486-8.
^ Hill, Christopher (31 January 2017). The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries. Verso Books. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-78478-670-0.

[1] Ashcraft, Richard (13 July 2021). Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government. Princeton University Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-1-4008-2342-0.

[2] Brown, Michael (30 September 2015). A Political Biography of John Toland. Routledge. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-317-31486-8.

[3] Hill, Christopher (31 January 2017). The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries. Verso Books. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-78478-670-0.

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