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Studies in Modern History General Editor: J. C. D. Clark, Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of British History, University of Kansas Titles include: Jonathan Clark and Howard Erskine Hill (editors) SAMUEL JOHNSON IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT Bernard Cottret (editor) BOLINGBROKE’S POLITICAL WRITINGS The Conservative Enlightenment Richard R. Follett EVANGELICALISM, PENAL THEORY AND THE POLITICS OF CRIMINAL LAW REFORM IN ENGLAND, 1808–30 Andrew Godley JEWISH IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NEW YORK AND LONDON 1880–1914 Philip Hicks NEOCLASSICAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH CULTURE From Clarendon to Hume Mark Keay WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S GOLDEN AGE THEORIES DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND, 1750–1850 William M. Kuhns DEMOCRATIC ROYALISM The Transformation of the British Monarchy, 1861–1914 Kim Lawes PATERNALISM AND POLITICS The Revival of Paternalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain Marisa Linton THE POLITICS OF VIRTUE IN ENLIGHTENMENT FRANCE Nancy D. LoPatin POLITICAL UNIONS, POPULAR POLITICS AND THE GREAT REFORM ACT OF 1832 Marjorie Morgan NATIONAL IDENTITIES AND TRAVEL IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN James Muldoon EMPIRE AND ORDER The Concept of Empire, 800–1800 W. D. Rubinstein and Hilary Rubinstein PHILOSEMITISM Admiration and Support for Jews in the English-Speaking World, 1840–1939 Julia Rudolph REVOLUTION BY DEGREES James Tyrrell and Whig Political Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century Lisa Steffen TREASON AND NATIONAL IDENTITY Defining a British State, 1608–1820 Lynne Taylor BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND COLLABORATION Popular Protest in Northern France, 1940–45 Studies in Modern History Series Standing Order ISBN 978-0-333-79328-2 (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Revolution by Degrees James Tyrrell and Whig Political Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century Julia Rudolph Assistant Professor of History Bucknell University Lewisburg Pennsylvania USA © Julia Rudolph 2002 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2002 978-0-333-73659-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rudolph, Julia, 1962– Revolution by degrees:James Tyrrell and Whig political thought in the late seventeenth century / Julia Rudolph. p. cm. — (Studies in modern history) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Tyrrell, James, 1642–1718—Contributions in political sicence. 2. Political science—Great Britain—History—17th century. 3. Great Britain—History— Revolution of 1688. I. Title. II. Studies in modern history (Palgrave (Firm)) JC153.T87 R83 2002 320.5—dc21 2001058225 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 To the memory of my mother, Sonia Rudolph Contents Acknowledgments viii 1 Introduction: The Question of Whig Resistance Theory 1 2 Exclusion and the Evolution of Contract Theory in James Tyrrell’s Patriarcha non Monarcha 19 3 ‘To preserve the Original Constitution of Parliaments’: Revolution and Preservation in James Tyrrell’s Whig History 62 4 Whig Theories and Theorists after 1688: the Case for Resistance 93 5 Resistance in Tyrrell’s Bibliotheca Politica: the People and the Convention 124 6 John Locke and Whig Theory 148 Notes 168 Select Bibliography 209 Index 226 Acknowledgments First thanks go to David Armitage, without whom this book would not have been published. He has been a great friend and mentor, and a constant source of insight and encouragement. I am also enor- mously grateful to Julian Franklin who helped me to formulate the doctoral dissertation upon which this book is based, and who provided thoughtful guidance while challenging me to strike out on my own. I was also helped in the initial stages of conceiving this project by discussions with John Pocock, Steven Zwicker, Derek Hirst, Quentin Skinner and Mark Goldie. David Cannadine, Gene Rice, Rachel Weil, Peter Lake and Alison Frazier offered helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. My work also benefited from discussion with members of the New York University Legal History Seminar, especially Bill Nelson, Sally Gordon, John Baker, Paul Brand and Liam O’Melinn. Jonathan Clark helped me to envision the final version of this book, and I am grateful to him for includ- ing it in this series. My editors at Palgrave, and my copy editor Anne Rafique, have been most responsive and thorough. Robert A.Naborn contributed expert insight into the jacket image and its accompanying Dutch text. My colleagues in the History Depart- ment at Bucknell have been supportive and interested in my work. I’d also like to thank Will George, of the Department of Informa- tion Services and Resources at Bucknell, for providing much-needed computer advice. Finally, it is with both joy and sadness that I thank my family and friends. I am thrilled, at last, to be at that point in my acknowledge- ments to thank my husband, Matthew Adler, who has provided me with so much emotional, intellectual and economic support. He knows this book well, but I wish he could know how much I’ve appreciated his help. My sons, Jonathan and Spencer, have unknow- ingly given me real motivation to finish this project and to produce something that, one day, they might be proud of. Diane and Barbara Rudolph, the extended Adler family, Brooke Bedrick and Anne Stetson all contributed to this work in different ways. But it was, viii Acknowledgments ix most of all, my mother, Sonia Rudolph, who encouraged me to reach for my ‘dancing star’, who nurtured my desire to reflect and to write, and who led the way by the example of her own curiosity and creat- ivity. How I wish that she could be here today to see the completion of this book.
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