The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
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In The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, John Milton defends the right of people to execute a guilty sovereign.
In the text John Milton conjectures about the formation of commonwealths. He comes up with a kind of constitutionalism but not an outright anti-monarchical argument. He gives a theory of how people come into commonwealths and come to elect kings. He explains what the role of a king should be, and conversely what a tyrant is.
