![]() ![]() Monarchy and republicanism are two possibilities their advantages and disadvantages may be evaluated differently in different countries, and preferences may change over time” (33). ![]() Thomas Corns points out that, in his Defense of the People of England (1651), Milton “persistently attempts…to establish the notion of the plurality of alternative governmental structures available to contemporary European civilization. See also Victoria Kahn, Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640–1674 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004). According to Kahn, Milton “claims that since the Presbyterians have figuratively or metaphorically killed the king, they are logically and morally obliged to do so literally as well” (99). ![]() (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 82–105, Victoria Kahn argues that Milton effectively obligates those who deposed the king to kill him. Discussing this passage in “The Metaphorical Contract in Milton’s Tenure of Kings and Magistrates,” in Milton and Republicanism. Then they certainly who by deposing him have long since tak’n from him the life of a King, his office and his dignity, they in the truest sence may be said to have killed the King” (, 34. In The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, Milton argues, “King is a name of dignity and office, not of person: Who therefore kills a King, must kill him while he is a King. ![]()
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