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monarchomachs  

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  • The monarchomachs (“those who fight against monarchs”) were sixteenth-century French Calvinist theorists who criticized absolute monarchy and religious persecution, while defending various related doctrines of ancient constitutionalism, social contract, and resistance to unjust or tyrannical government, up to and including tyrannicide. Although French Calvinists had long offered intellectual justifications for resistance to persecution, the term monarchomachs is generally reserved for those who wrote after the St. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Monarchomachs]

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