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	SIR ROBERT FILMER - LoveToKnow Article on SIR ROBERT FILMER
		Filmer was already a middle-aged man when the great controversy between the king and the Commons roused him into literary activity.
		Filmers theory is founded upon the statement that the government of a family by the father is the true original and model of all government.
		From Adam this authority was inherited by Noah; and Filmer quotes as not unlikely the tradition tha,t Noah sailed up the Mediterranean and allotted the three continents of the Old World to the rule of his three sons.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FI/FILMER_SIR_ROBERT.htm (457 words)

	Robert Filmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From Adam this authority was inherited by Noah; and Filmer quotes as not unlikely the tradition that Noah sailed up the Mediterranean and allotted the three continents of the Old World to the rule of his three sons.
		From Shem, Ham and Japheth the patriarchs inherited the absolute power which they exercised over their families and servants; and from the patriarchs all kings and governors (whether a single monarch or a governing assembly) derive their authority, which is therefore absolute, and founded upon divine right.
		Filmer's theory, owing to the circumstances of the time, obtained a recognition which it is now difficult to understand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Filmer (445 words)

	Filmer
		Sir Robert Filmer was born in 1588, the eldest son of Sir Edward Filmer of East Sutton, Kent.
		Filmer accepted that the three pure forms of government - monarchy, aristocracy and democracy - were legitimate, but denied the possibility of "mixed" forms (where power was held partly by a king and partly by a representative body).
		Filmer argued that if the power of husbands and fathers was political, as he contended, then the assertion of contract theorists that all people were born free and equal was false.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/367/367-043.htm (1503 words)

	Filmer monumental brass - Sir Edward Filmer and Lady Elizabeth Argall
		The Filmer family was originally seated at Herst, in the parish of Otterden, Kent, where Robert Filmer lived in the reign of Edward II.
		Sir Edward Filmer was eldest son of Robert Filmour, prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who removed to the estate of Little Charleton, in East Sutton, which he had purchased, and died in 1585.
		Robert, their oldest son, the first of the group below, employed his pen in defense of the crown, was knighted by Charles I., and suffered heavily in purse and person during the civil wars.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/6025/filmer_argall.htm (422 words)

	Robert Filmer, Sir Biography / Biography of Robert Filmer, Sir Biography
		The eldest son of Sir Edward Filmer, Robert Filmer was born in the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign.
		Filmer rejected any sort of "social compact"--whether stemming from man's "natural goodness" as Milton would have had it or from his depravity as Hobbes averred--as the original basis for government.
		Filmer was, however, a rationalist; before his death in 1653 he wrote two works which cast doubt on the validity of witchcraft, An Advertisement to the Jurymen of England Touching Witches and The Difference between a Hebrew and an English Witch.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-robert-filmer-sir (614 words)

	FILMER FAMILY DESCENDANTS
		Robert FILMER (2.Margery2, 1.Robert1) born 1525, married Frances CHESTER, (daughter of Sir Robert CHESTER and N. Robert died 1585 age 60, East Sutton, Kent, England.
		Robert FILMER was a prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
		FILMER's were anciently seated at Manor of Herst, parish of Otterden, England in Ed II till time of Elizabeth when Robert FILMER, son of James, moved to Little Charleton, E. Sutton.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/6025/filmer.htm (1585 words)

	Property (ownership right) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another member of the Hobbes/Harrington generation, Sir Robert Filmer, reached conclusions much like Hobbes', although chiefly through Biblical exegesis and without, it must be said, anything akin to the intellectual depth of a Hobbes or a Harrington.
		Filmer said that the institution of kingship is analogous to that of fatherhood, that subjects are but children, whether obedient or unruly, and that property rights are akin to the household goods that a father may dole out among his kids—his to take back and dispose of according to his pleasure.
		In the following generation, John Locke sought to answer Filmer, creating a rationale for a balanced constitution in which the monarch would have a part to play, but not an overwhelming part.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Private_property (3046 words)

	Windsor History. The Windsor Martyrs
		Henry Filmer and Robert Testwood were arrested for having writings against the Six Articles in their homes, as were a minor lawyer in Windsor, Robert Bennett, and John Marbeck.
		Robert Testwood was suffering from gout and he was allowed to remain at home in the charge of the bailiffs of the town, but the others were taken to prison in London.
		Robert Bennett was reported to be "sick of the pestilence" and was left behind in the Bishop of London's jail.
	www.thamesweb.co.uk /windsor/windsorhistory/winmartyr.html (2300 words)

	§13. Filmer. XII. Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of ...
		Sir Robert Filmer was also among the critics of Hobbes’s politics, though he owes his fame to the circumstance that he was himself criticised by Locke.
		Filmer was by no means devoid of critical insight.
		He thinks that “a great family, as to the rights of sovereignty, is a little monarchy,” and Hobbes had said the same; but Filmer traces all kingship to the subjection of children to their parents, which is both natural and a divine ordinance.
	www.bartleby.com /217/1213.html (429 words)

	Robert Filmer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sir Robert Filmer (1588 - 26 May 1653) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (additional info and facts about political) political (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) writer.
		He was the son of Sir Edward Filmer of East Sutton in (A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; the first to be colonized by the Romans) Kent.
		In the beginning of the world God gave authority to ((Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race) Adam, who had complete control over his descendants, even as to life and death.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_filmer.htm (446 words)

	Thomas Hobbes, Robert Filmer and John Locke: 17th Century Models for a Science of Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Filmer's theories are known as "patriarchal", which means based on the rule (arche = rule) of the father (pater = father).
		Family models, like Filmer, see the bond between society and the citizen as analogous to that between parents and children, where there is no contract, but the child accepts the authority of its parents because they exercise love and power towards it.
		Filmer argued for the divine right of kings on the basis that God had made Adam general lord of all things, and that this patriarchal model is intended for all time.
	www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/ssh2.htm (6232 words)

	Hougham/huffam family tree Nov 2005 - pafn585 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Henry, Robert and Frances' fourth son, was baptised at East Sutton in 1574.
		Henry Filmer was baptised at East Sutton in 1574.
		The Licence states that Robert Filmer is a widower and yeoman of Wychling and that Mary Burton came from Eastling, was a spinster aged about 25 or 26 and was the daughter of Thomas Burton, chandler.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /houghamfamily/pafn585.htm (1905 words)

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		FILMER, SIR ROBERT (C. 1588-1653), English absolutist writer and theorist of patriarchalism, was squire of East Sutton, near Maidstone, Kent.
		Filmer, and the Kentish gentlemen who read him in manuscript, had rejected government by consent well before parliament proceeded to extremes against Charles I. Filmer believed that the state was a family, that the first king was a father and that submission to patriarchal authority was the key to political obligation.
		Filmer died at East Sutton on May 26, 1653, and is buried in the church there, surrounded by his descendants to the tenth generation made baronets in his honour.
	www.christianheritageworks.com /111.htm (2012 words)

	John Locke Bibliography -- Chapter 7, Politics & Government -- 1660-1800
		Filmer, R. Political discourses of Sir Robert Filmer, baronet, viz.
		There are two modern editions of Filmer’s political works: (1) Patriarcha and other political works of Sir Robert Filmer / edited from the original sources and with an introduction by Peter Laslett.
		[Bohun, E. A defence of Sir Robert Filmer, against the mistakes and misrepresentations of Algernon Sidney, esq; in a paper delivered by him to the Sheriffs upon the scaffold on Tower-Hill, on Fryday December the 7th 1683.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /tas/locke/ch7-18c.html (6684 words)

	Hougham/huffam family tree Nov 2005 - pafn583 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1564 at the age of 39 be married Frances CHESTER, daughter of Sir Robert Chester of Royston, Hertfordshire, a Gentleman Usher to King Henry VIII, at St. Dunstan's in the East.
		John Filmer, the son of James Filmer and Marjorie Raynor, was probably born in the early 1530's either before or after his brother, William, and before his brother, Isaac.
		Katherine Filmer of East Sutton, sister to Sir Robert Filmer, married a Robert Barham in 1619.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /houghamfamily/pafn583.htm (6090 words)

	Extracts from Sir Robert Filmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For a long time the word of a king was the only law; and if practice, as saith Sir Walter Raleigh, declare the greatness of authority, even the best kings of Judah and Israel were not tied to any law; but they did whatsoever they pleased in the greatest matters.
		This is the passage from 1 Samuel chapter 11 in the King James version of the Jewish Bible that Filmer refers to.
		Where Filmer refers to natural rights, or by the power of nature, my inference would that the argument is from nature not
	www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/xfil.htm (3352 words)

	Catholic Sources and the Declaration of Independence
		Robert Filmer, private theologian of James I of England, in his theory of Divine right, proclaimed, “The king can do no wrong.
		“Patriarcha,” was written by Robert Filmer, the private theologian of James I of England in defense of the Divine Right of Kings and principally in refutation of the Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmine's political principles of popular sovereignty.
		Having lately seen a book entitled “Patriarcha,” written by Sir Robert Filmer, concerning the universal and undistinguished right of all kings, I thought a time of leisure might well be employed in examining his doctrine and the questions arising from it; which seems so far to concern all mankind.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/politics/pg0003.html (3815 words)

	Robert Adam -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
		“Movement,” wrote Robert Adam, “is meant to express the rise and fall, the advance and recess, [and] other diversity of form… to add greatly to the picturesque” character of the whole.
		Robert Lawson holds the distinction of being the first person to win both the Caldecott and Newbery medals, two of the top prizes awarded in children's literature.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9003646 (841 words)

	Debates - The Divine Right of Kings vs. Individual Rights
		In this debate, Filmer presented a defense of the doctrine of the "divine right of kings" in 1680.
		Filmer was a strong advocate of the theory of the divine right of kings in the 17th century.
		Sidney rejected Filmer’s theories of royal absolutism and divine right of kings, insisting that title to rule should be based on merit rather than birth; and republics, he thought, were more likely to honor merit than were monarchies.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Home3/Debates.php?Collection=10 (545 words)

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		For example, he believed that the human will was the source of all law and authority, that the population's total submission to the dictates of a sovereign was a necessity, and that no form of mixed government could be tolerated.
		Filmer based his understanding of absolutism on a reading of the biblical account of creation.
		But if this foundation fails, all his [Filmer's] Fabric falls with it, and Governments must be left again to the old way of being made by contrivance, and the consent of Men making use of their Reason to unite together into Society.
	orion.it.luc.edu /~rmayer/plsc100/locke.html (4101 words)

	John Drury Rare Books Stock Selection - 9749 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Filmer's 'Discourse' was first published in 1653 as 'Quaestio quodlibetica; or, a discourse, whether it may bee lawfull to take use for money'.
		Sir Robert Filmer was one of a growing number of English gentry who were increasingly troubled by such a view.
		'Filmer took the line marked out by Calvin and stressed that it was the spirit of the act that counted.
	www.btinternet.com /~johndrury/stock/9749.htm (283 words)

	Filmer: 'Patriarcha' and Other Writings - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The classic texts of patriarchal political thinking were written by Sir Robert Filmer (1588—1653), one of the most acute defenders of absolute monarchy in the seventeenth century.
		In addition to presenting his own patriarchalist theory, Filmer’s works contain incisive attacks on democratic thinking and on the notion that political obligation stems from a contract between ruler and ruled.
		His political works are here edited from the original manuscript and printed sources, with an introduction which locates Filmer’s ideas in their historical and ideological contexts.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=052137491X&print=y (311 words)

	John Locke Bibliography--Part I -- Two treatises of government
		100 Two treatises of government: in the former, the false principles, and foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his followers, are detected and overthrown.
		101 Two treatises of government: in the former, the false principles, and foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his followers, are detected and overthrown.
		In the former the false principles and foundation of Sir Robert Filmer and his followers are detected and overthrown.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /tas/locke/ch0c.html (3271 words)

	People and ideas systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Filmer was an enthusiastic royalist, who wrote pamphlets in defence of the authority of the state, arguing that kings have a divine right to rule.
		Robert Owen was the son of an ironmonger or saddler in Wales.
		(Hobbes, Filmer and Locke, 17th Century Models for a Science of Society) the thtories of Robert Filmer are an example of a theological explanation of society.
	www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/bio.htm (8819 words)

	Robert Filmer Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Sir Robert Filmer incorporated portions of Aristotle's arguments into his theory rejecting popular sovereignty in favor of absolute monarchy.
		Filmer endorsed complete male subordination of women, arguing that the Bible ordained women's inferior status.
		Geisst contends that Filmer presents a coherent theory which merits Filmer's inclusion in the cannon of Western political theory.
	www.utdallas.edu /dept/socsci/journals/STUD-5.HTML (62 words)

	Combs &c. Families of Brabourne, Kent, England
		Susan SARE was the d/o Thomas and Joan ADY Sare and sister of Ady SARE of the Inner Temple and Provender, Norton, Kent, who m Sarah ARCHDALE, d/o Thomas and Mary CLIFTON Archdale of London.
		The Barham Family report adds that Robert BARHAM the younger (s/o Robert and Susan SARE Barham) married 1 Aug 1620, Katherine FILMER, d/o Sir Edward and Elizabeth FILMER of East Sutton, Kent.
		In her 1651/2 Westminster will, Deborah FLEET bequeathed "All goods to my cousins Sir Robert FILMER & Sir Edward FILMER, both of East Sutton, Kent, knights, & they to be ex'ors, towards payment of such sums as sd.
	www.combs-families.org /combs/records/england/ken/brabourne.htm (398 words)

	THE CHRONICLES BOOKLOG: Find out what the Chronicles editors are reading, and purchase recommended books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This was, I believe, a laudable goal, just as the goal of the pro-life movement is eminently laudable, but since the arguments are not rooted either in reality or in the Christian tradition, they were soon to be taken up by the enemies not only of the Catholic Church but of Christianity as a whole.
		Sir Robert Filmer lived through a difficult period in English history; his lifetime spanned the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell.
		Aristotle and Cicero are ultimately far more important than Filmer, but his little polemic is a good place to begin the discussion.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /cgi-bin/booklog.cgi/2004/05 (3171 words)

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