The Right to Resistance in the Late Modern Times

Abstract

The Since ranged Aristotelian thought in Europe, from the 13th century, the political-juridical contractualism won ground. The idea of the contract determines that the other party is released from their commitments and this requirement, in the area of politics, involves recourse to moral or physical violence. Second Scholasticism Spanish theologians and Jurists pointed out vigorously this contractual requirement; but his theories were lost as it advanced the modern age. Monarchist theory reaches its culmination in the 18th century, and the author examines the works of leading lawyers of this century to observe their attitude before the power acting unjustly. These authors were inconsequential because they emphasized the contractual origin of power but they refused the right of resistance against injustice; only Daniel Nettelbladt seemed to have in has diluted this right of the people or populus.