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s more accepted in this era than the idea of absolutism was in England, for anti-absolutist sentiments had been expressed for some time by writers such as Bodin, Hobbes, and Bossuet. John Locke was the leading theorist of anti-absolutism, and his Two Treatises on Government was published in 1690 to justify what had been done over the previous two years (though the treatises were written before the revolution). Locke wrote at a time of social unrest and questioning, at a time when the long-standing sovereignty of kings a

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