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...Kings expressed this idea according to a metaphor of relative power: "Kings are as absolute as Adam over the creatures." A king, thought Filmer, rules his people as a father rules ins children. In 1681, the writer James Tyrrell, a friend of Locke's, replied in Patriarcha non Monarcha that on the contrary, a king is as much under the law as are ins subjects: all are bound by the social compact...
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