Locke's Ideas About Authority and Revolution in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Great Britain

FAIN: FA-11462-76

Joseph Hamburger
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)

To examine how Locke's ideas about authority and revolution were used to defend political authority and to justify challenges to it in Great Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries. The inquiry will focus on such occasions as Dr. Sacheverell's trial, Jacobite risings, the radical agitations of the 1790's, 1816-23, 1831-32, and 1836-48.