Index

Acton, John Emerich Dalberg, Lord, xiii, 104, 108 and n.

American revolution, the, 13, 73–4, 78

Armitage, David, 65n.

Austin, John, 98 and n.

Bacon, Francis, 11, 94

Bailyn, Bernard, 13n.

Baldwin, Tom, 114n.

Baron, Hans, 10n.

Beacon, Richard, 11

Bentham, Jeremy, 82, 83n., 98 and n.

Berlin, Isaiah, 28n., 60n., 113–15, 116.

Blackstone, William, 97 and n.

body politic, the, 24–5

enslavement of, 47–53

liberty of, 25–6, 36–8, 68.

will of, 25–7, 28–9

Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount, 12, 72

Bramhall, John, 6 and n., 9

Brett, Annabel S., 8n.

Burrow, J. W., xn., 95n., 111 n.

Butterfield, Herbert, 104, 105

Charles I, 1, 2, 13, 56

alleged tyranny of, 47–9, 51, 75–6

Charles II, 16, 90, 103

Chartist movement, ix and n.

Charvet, John, 20n.

civil society, 17 and n.

coercion,

of natural bodies, 68–9, 98–9, 113–15, 119

political bodies, 47–9, 68

Collingwood, R. G., 102 and n.

Collinson, Patrick, xiii–xiv, 11 and n., 44n., 108n.

consent, 27 and n., 28–9

Constant, Benjamin, 60n., 117n.

Corns, Thomas N., 14n., 76n.

corruption, 33n., 90, 91–3, 94

courtiers, 56, 89–93, 96

Cromwell, Oliver, 15, 16, 65

Davidson, Donald, 117n.

dependence,

and natural bodies, 69–77, 84–93, 119

political bodies, 45–6, 49–53

Digest, the, of Roman Law, 5n., 6n., 38

on slavery, 39–41

Digges, Dudley, 6 and n., 9

Dunn, John, 27n., 103n.

Elton, G. R., xiii–xiv, 3n., 106

Filmer, Robert, 6 and n., 9, 10, 60

Foucault, Michel, 112n.

freedom, see under free states, liberty

free states,

and civil liberty, 60, 66–77

constitutions of, 26–8, 30–6

England as example, 13, 23n.

and glory, 61–5

idea of, 23–6

Livy on, 44–6

theorists of, 10–16

glory, as goal of states, 61–2, 63–5, 89

Hall, John, 14 and n.

civil rights, 20

enslaved states, 37

monarchy, 55

personal servitude, 71

republics, 57

Hampden, John, 69

Harrington, James, 15 and n., 19

body politic, 24, 29

civil liberty, 66–7, 76–7, 85

civil society, 17n.

consent, 28

free states, 23, 46, 63

gentlemen, 95

law, 75

Machiavelli, 47

personal servitude, 86, 91

representation, 34–5

Sallust, 63

Hayward, John, 3n.

Hobbes, Thomas,

free states, 10–11, 59–60, 68, 77, 85

law and liberty, 6, 9–10

liberty of subjects, 6–10, 79–80, 97n.

the state, 4–5

Houston, Alan, 20n., 37n., 46n.

Hunton, Philip, 3 and n.

independence, 46, 49–50, 95–6

Independence, Declaration of, 50

Jefferson, Thomas, 20n.

Jonson, Ben, 12

Laslett, Peter, 103

law

and civil liberty, 5–7, 33n., 83n.

in free states, 44–5

liberty, civil,

in free states, 23–4, 60, 66–77

Hobbesian view of, 5–10, 59–60

liberal view of, x, 77–84, 97–9, 112–16

neo-roman view of, ix–x, 10–16

and rights, 18–21

Livy, 10, 42n., 44–6, 55, 94n.

Locke, John, 21, 27n., 55n., 103

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, 47–8

MacCallum, Gerald C., Jr., 85n.

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 10 and n., 11, 46–7, 63–4

civil liberty, 61, 66

enslaved states, 37 and n., 38

free states, 10, 26 and n., 37n.

glory, 63

rights, 18 and n.

self-government, 54–5

Maitland, F. W., 110 and n., 111

Marx, Karl, xn.

Maxwell, John, 2n.

Mill, John Stuart, ix.

Milton, John, 14, 16, 33n.

civil liberty, 19, 67

enslaved states, 37–8, 48–9, 51–3

federation, 31

free states, 23, 75–6

participation, 30

personal servitude, 73–4, 75–6

representation, 34

rights, 19–20

royal veto, 51–3

tyranny, 69

monarchy

and free states, 45, 53–7

tyranny, 47–9, 50–3

More, Thomas, 31, 88–9

Namier, L. B., 104

Nedham, Marchamont, 13–14, 15 and n.

body politic, 24

civil liberty, 67

consent, 27

free states, 23–4, 27

glory, 63–4

participation, 30

personal servitude, 71

representation, 33–4

rights, 20–1

Neville, Henry, 12 and n., 16

body politic, 24–5

enslaved states, 53

Machiavelli, 47

mixed monarchy, 54 and n.

representation, 35

rights, 21

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 118

Osborne, Francis, 15 and n.

majorities, 29

monarchy, 55–7

personal servitude, 71

representation, 33

royal veto, 51

Paley, William, 78, 80–1, 81n., 82 and n., 84, 97

Parker, Henry, 1–2, 21n., 22n., 23n., 47n., 76n.

participation in government, 30–5

Pettit, Philip, xi, 22n., 37n., 70n., 74n., 78n., 82 and n.

Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel, 17n., 82n.

Plautus, 40 and n.

Pocock, J. G. A., 11n., 22n., 104–5

prerogative, royal, 51–3, 69–70, 72–3

Price, Richard, 12–13, 26n., 50

Priestley, Joseph, 80n.

Pufendorf, Samuel, 4 and n.

Rahe, Paul A., 13n., 36n.

Rapin de Thoryas, Paul de, 48n., 73n.

Rawls, John, 79n.

representation, 1–2, 5, 32–5

republicanism, 22 and n., 23n., 55–7

rights,

civil, 18, 19n., 21, 66–8

natural, 19–21

Rump Parliament, 33, 55, 65

Runciman, David, 110n.

Sallust, 42, 43 and n., 47, 61–2, 63, 64–5, 66

Scott, Jonathan, 35n., 86n.

security, 79–81, 84, 97–9

Seneca, 42n., 43 and n.

Sidgwick, Henry, 98–9

Sidney, Algernon, 12 and n., 16

civil liberty, 67n., 87

consent, 28

courtiers, 90–3

democracy, 32

enslaved states, 38

free states, 23, 26

majorities, 29

participation, 30

personal servitude, 71–2, 86–7, 90–3

representation, 35–6

rights, 21

Sidney, Philip, 12

slavery,

colonisation and, 49–50, 59

monarchy and, 45, 53–7

of natural bodies, 68–74, 75–6, 84–7, 89–93

political bodies, 36–8, 45–6, 47–51

Roman idea of, 38–46

sovereignty,

of king, 2

king-in-parliament, 2–3

people, 1–2, 21n.

state, 3–5, 109–110

state,

as artificial person, 2–5, 109

and civil liberty, 5–7

as sovereign, 2, 109

state of nature, 19–20

Streater, John, 15

Sulla, Lucius, 64, 65

Tacitus, 43, 44 and n., 90 and n., 91, 92

Taylor, Charles, 114n.

Tuck, Richard, 9n., 22n.

Tully, James, 21n., 27n.

Viroli, Maurizio, l0n.

virtue, 23 and n., 32n., 33n., 74n.

Walpole, Robert, 12, 72

Warrender, Howard, 102n., 106n.

Williams, Griffith, 6

Wirszubski, C., 22n., 37n., 66n.

Wither, George, 14 and n., 94 and n.

Worden, Blair, 13n., 14n., 23n., 65n.