This is true. #m17ra
Started when having read Pocock's Machiavellian Moment was a big help in understanding the Miller case (and vice versa).
There's already creative use of Romans 13 about in US #absolutism
Trump et al are proposing "theories of executive spending that would essentially undo late 17th century English settlements between King and parliament, and upend the 1787 constitutional dynamic."
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I didn't expect Korea to get in on Making the 17th Century Relevant Again.
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#TIL after his long military career, Rupert of the Rhine engaged in scientific & maths research. Don't know why I was surprised, given he was Elizabeth of Bohemia's brother.
He once bet that a cube could pass through itself and proved it. A shape has been found without this Rupert property.
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Excellent piece on free speech, particularly in the early United States, where Washington's successor outlawed criticism of POTUS, and an Irish-born Congressman, Spitting Lyons, criticised him for it & was jailed.
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(On a break from writing about 17th century classical republicanism).
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The problem is indeed generally when the limits are ignored, not looking anywhere in particular.
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And the early modern.
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Time to write that piece on absolute monarchy and Robert Molesworth, clearly (only there's a lot of other things ahead in the queue)
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A brief history of Irish Colleges in the 17th century
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"The Machiavellian moment: Florentine political thought and the Atlantic republican tradition" (2003), pp. 424-5.
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Problem with tariffs is that, just like Wentworth's revenue-collecting in 17th century Ireland, it doesn't make you popular.
"Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins."
Post which would be an interesting summary of Locke's political theory even if it wasn't a topical critique of the abuse of USs Locke-influenced Constitution.
Making the 17th Century Relevant Again.
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