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1. 1. The First Treatise Of Government

   In the Former, The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown

   

   A sustained, point-by-point refutation of the patriarchal theory that political power is derived from Adam and passed down to monarchs, attacking Sir Robert Filmer’s scriptural and historical justifications for the divine right of kings; it argues that parental authority cannot be equated with sovereign authority, dismantles claims of hereditary absolutism, and prepares the ground for a conception of political power rooted in consent and natural equality.

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