num_pages: 645
description: Written in response to Sir Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha (1680), the Discourses Concerning Government by Algernon Sidney (1623–1683) has been treasured for more than three centuries as a classic defense of republicanism and popular government. Thomas G. West is Paul and Dawn Potter Professor of Politics, Hillsdale College.
language: English
title: Discourses Concerning Government
titlecomplete: Discourses Concerning Government (Liberty Fund Studies in Political Theory)
genres: Politics, Nonfiction, History, Philosophy
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Liberty Fund