@booklet {7101, title = {Two Discourses Concerning the Affairs of Scotland; Written in the Year 1698}, year = {1698}, note = {

Rpt. in his The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq. (London: Ptd. by James Bettenham, 1732), 71-175; The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq. of Saltoun (Glasgow, Scot.: Ptd. by Robert Urie, 1749), 49-121; and Selected Political Writings and Speeches. Ed. David Daiches (Edinburgh, Scot.: Scottish Academic Press, 1979), 27-66. The Two Discourses are not included in his The Political Works of Fletcher of Saltoun. London: Ptd. for H.D. Symonds, 1798.

}, month = {1698}, publisher = {Np}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot.}, abstract = {

The second discourse argues for a new slavery to relieve poverty; \"Controlled servitude is better than vagabondage\" (xxiv). In other works,\ Fletcher argued for revamping the political system with limitations on the monarch, a reformed Parliament, an independent judiciary, and a national militia.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {[Andrew] [Fletcher of Saltoun] (1655-1716)} }