And, Sydney apart, the resistance they had justified was always resistance to a religious tyrant; and Cartwright was as careful to exclude political oppression from the grounds of revolution as Locke was to insist upon it as the fundamental excuse.
Laski discusses the justification of resistance against tyranny, contrasting the religious and political dimensions in Locke's thought.
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