Algernon Sidney and John Locke: How Two Men Answered Filmer and Armed a Revolution

Podcast: Consequential Actions Podcast · Jeff Kellick

Opublikowano: 2026-08-15

Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 10 They Executed Him for a Book Nobody Had Read On the twenty-first of November, 1683, a sixty-year-old man stood at the bar of the Court of King’s Bench charged with high treason, without counsel, because English law did not permit a man accused of treason to have any. The crown had one witness, and the law required two. So the prosecution reached for an unpublished manuscript its officers had carried out of his study, and Lord Chief Justice George Jeffreys instructed the jury in thre...