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Algernon Sidney or Sydney (15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle part of the Long Parliament and commissioner of the trial of King Charles I of England, he opposed the king's execution.
Algernon Sidney (born 1622, Penshurst Place, Kent, England—died December 7, 1683, London) was an English Whig politician executed for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government of King Charles II (ruled 1660–85).
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A classic defense of republicanism and popular government written in response to Sir Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha. Sidney rejected Filmer’s theories of royal absolutism and divine right of kings, and argued for merit-based rule and republics.
Jul 2, 2024 · Learn about Algernon Sidney, a seventeenth-century English writer who was executed for his anti-royalist views and became a hero to American proponents of free speech. Discover how his book Discourses Concerning Government shaped the ideas of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and other Founding Fathers.
May 21, 2018 · Algernon Sidney was a Whig martyr and apologist who fought for Parliament in the English Civil War. He was executed in 1683 for his involvement in the Rye House plot against Charles II.
A republican treatise on the origins, nature, and limits of government, written by a martyr of the English Civil War. Sidney argues for popular sovereignty, consent, and the right of revolution, and criticizes Filmer's Patriarcha and Machiavelli's The Prince.
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Letters of Algernon Sidney [1622-1683: see D.N.B.] during his captivity in the Tower of London before his trial on a charge of high treason after the discovery of the Rye House plot, 1683 (now...
