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From the point of view of our discussion, the book as a response to political and literary circumstances, its origin belongs to the autumn and winter of 1678-80, exactly a decade earlier than it is traditionally supposed to have been written. Two Treatises is an Exclusion Tract, not a Revolution Pamphlet.
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I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.
William Shirley
Peter Laslett
Born:
December 18, 1915
Died:
November 8, 2001
(aged 85)
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Peter Laslett was an English historian.
Known for:
The World We Have Lost (1965)
A fresh map of life (1989)
Household and family in past time (1972)
Debating Deliberative Democracy
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