Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right

This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession, ''Questions relative to Hereditary Right'', discovered and edited by Quentin Skinner. The former work is the last of Hobbes''s major political wri...