...Many Thonsands of the Good People of England (London). Ie 'Legion's Memorial'. Defoe, Daniel (1701c). The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England (London). Repr. in Goldie 1999, I. Defoe, Daniel (1965). Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe, ed. JT...

...poetry: The True-Porn Englishman, 1701; in journalism: The Review, 1704-13; in political writing : The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, 1701 ; amnng pamphlets: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, 1702; The Secret History of the White-Staff,...

...the high-handed independence claimed by tories in parliament. The most weighty of these pamphlets is The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, which is worthy of Somers ; but we get a better idea of the character of Defoe himself through his...

...from Bumet's epilogue to his History. To political theory his chief contribution is his tract of 1701, The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, which Chalmers pronounced to be equal to Locke in reasoning and superior in style. Defoe himself makes...

...Constitutional freedom has been the favorite idea of English and American statesmen ; but De Foe's treatise on the " Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England " was one of the first and most daring popular expositions of a doctrine that lies at the foundation...