...the most dramatic moments of his country's history, Defoe turned to the biblical story. Dedicating The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England to King William, Defoe proclaimed that "God himself appointed, the Prophet exclaimed, but the Peoples...

...this orthodoxy.74 On the eve of the American "0 Marginalia in British Museum copy of [Daniel Defoe] , The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, Examined and Asserted (London, 1702), 18-19. 7 1 Robert Molesworth, Some Considerations for the Promoting of Agriculture...

...are the anonymous Vox Populi, Vox Dei: Being True Maxims of Government (London, 1709); Daniel Defoe, The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, Examined and Asserted (London, 1702); and Benjamin Hoadly, The Original and Institution of Civil Government Discuss'd (London,...

...London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1710 ATTRIBUTION: Moore. Some extracts (slightly adapted) from Defoe's The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England (1702), misapplied (see p. 7) so as to appear an encouragement to Queen Anne to dismiss the Godolphin...

...1707, Defoe was an active agent in, and chronicler of, negotiations which transformed two 44 [Defoe], The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England in A True Collection of the Writings Of the Author of The True-Born English-Man (London, 1703), p....

...are the anonymous Vox Populi, Vox Dei: Being True Max1ms of Government, London, 1709; Daniel Defoe, The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, Examined and Asserted, London, 1702; and Benjamin Hoadly, The Original and Institution of Civil Government Discuss'd, London,...

...Grotianism, but sooner or later he started to make Lockean arguments instead, or in addition. By 1701, in "The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England," Defoe had embraced Lockean principles. Moreover, the strong presence of Locke in Defoe's most famous...

...Writing of History. Trans. Tom Conley. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1988. Defoe, Daniel. The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, Examined and Asserted. London: R. Baldwin, 1769. The History of the Principal Discoveries and Improvements in the Several...

...systematic statement than hitherto. At the end of December, he published a pamphlet with the title The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, Exammed and Asserted, This was partly a reply to Sir Humphrey Mackworth's Vindication of the Commons...

...cadeaux, pensions ou emplois, en ce temps où ce n'est pas le mérite mais le patronage Daniel Defoe, The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England Examined and Asserted. Cité par HT Dickinson, op. cit., p. 88-89 : "/ do not place this right upon the inhabitants, but upon...