The Works Of The Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke (Volume V)

What did power mean to a statesman who helped unmake one political age and imagine the next? Power is never purely legal. In The Works Of The Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke (Volume V), readers encounter some of the most penetrating classic political essays and historical political treatises produced in 18th century Britain, written at the storm centre of Georgian era politics and Tory party politics.A leading minister, controversial exile and brilliant polemicist, Bolingbroke writes with a clarity and urgency that still illuminate debates on liberty, sovereignty and the British constitution. His arguments stand beside, and often against, the currents of John Locke political philosophy and wider Enlightenment political thought, making this volume an essential political philosophy collection as well as a rich reference for historians. Here, questions of monarchy, Parliament, parties and the nation are examined not as abstractions, but as living forces shaping British constitutional history.Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Indispensable for students of political thought and scholars of Georgian politics, yet fully accessible to the interested general reader, Bolingbroke collected works such as this volume offer both intellectual challenge and lasting reading pleasure.