This work of philosophy, which was originally published in Pakeman and Chapman editions, was later edited by John Toland who appended a life of its author.
This work of philosophy, which was originally published in Pakeman and Chapman editions, was later edited by John Toland who appended a life of its author. The author suggests adopting the ballot system used in Venice to control powerful factions, often quoting the wisdom of Machiavelli. He posits a sole lawgiver named Olphaus Megaletor and puts forth an idea later utilized by John Adams that government should be an "empire of laws and not of men." This work represents Oliver Cromwell, its dedicatee, as the ruler of the titular utopian kingdom. FTP, name this 1656 book by James Harrington, whose title reminds us more ►of a dystopia written about by Orwell. 
This work of philosophy, which was originally published in Pakeman and Chapman editions, was later edited by John Toland who appended a life of its author.
The Commonwealth of Oceana (or Oceania)