... , it was a popular theory with the extreme radicals during the Civil War and both Locke and Montesquieu discussed it in their political philosophies and writings. Although this theory sounded great and seemed to be maintaining peace, the reality in England was far from it. The source of political stability in Hanoverian England lay not in this supposed balance of powers ... full decade, from 1726 to 1736, and then republished into a thirteen volume book. The ideas of The Craftsman merge with some of the fundamental points of Cato and in fact quotes the writings of Trenchard and other lib...

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