{"product_id":"9576-grotius-traite-du-pouvoir-du-1","title":"GROTIUS (Hughs) – TREATISE ON THE POWER OF THE POLITICAL MAGISTRATE OVER SACRED THINGS, translated from the Latin of Grotius by M. de Barbeyrac","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGROTIUS (Hugh), London, 1751, in-12, mottled brown calf, spine with raised bands richly decorated with fleurons, title page in burgundy morocco, red edges, roll on the edges, (lower joint of the front cover slightly split, headcaps a little short, 1 corner bumped), interior in fine condition, IV-519 p.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnlike the Treatise on War and Peace, Grotius's \"De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra\" has only been translated and published in a single French edition, by Charles Armand L'Escalopier de Nourar, as Barbeyrac refused to undertake the task. Yet it is a major text in which Grotius confronts natural law with the theory of sovereignty and with potentially unjust and oppressive laws contrary to this right. This is the subject of pages 60 ff., whose subheading reads: \"Laws contrary to divine law, although they do not compel action, compel the non-resistance.\" A rare text (not found in Berkeley), its translation is of very respectable quality and probably less personal than Barbeyrac's translations of other works by Grotius or Puffendorf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mémoire du Droit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51962556678491,"sku":"9576","price":304.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.memoiredudroit.fr\/en\/products\/9576-grotius-traite-du-pouvoir-du-1","provider":"La Mémoire du Droit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}