Discourses Concerning Government is a political work published in 1698, and based on a manuscript written in the early 1680s by the English Whig activist Algernon Sidney who was executed on a treason
Title page of Discourses Concerning Government, 1698
Two Treatises of Government
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Two Treatises of Government is English philosopher John Locke's principal work of political philosophy. It was published anonymously in 1689, after the Glorious Revolution, but likely drafted 1680-81
Discourses Concerning Government
…revolutionaries to eighteen-century Whigs, American and French republicans." The Discourses was written in the period when John Locke was working on his Second Treatise on Government, and the books have common features. They have been described together as "essentially radical and popular theories of resistance." Jonathan Scott…
Title page from the first edition
Title page from Filmer's Patriarcha (1680)
Godfrey Kneller Portrait of John Locke