Memoirs of Planetes, or a Sketch of the Laws and Manners of Makar

TitleMemoirs of Planetes, or a Sketch of the Laws and Manners of Makar
Year for Search1795
Authors[Northmore], [Thomas](1766-1851)
Tertiary AuthorsDevoniensis, Phileleutherus [pseud.]
Date Published1795
PublisherPtd. by Vaughan Griffiths
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Eutopia. Detailed constitution of thirty-one articles and the positive effects of adopting it. The first articles are concerned with democratic political reform and the reduction in the number of laws. Trial by jury. No capital punishment. Reform of inheritance. Improved education. Marriage and divorce civil not religious. Freedom of the press.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 137-97.

Pseudonym

By Phileleutherus Devoniensis [pseud.]

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

(1766-1851)

Full Text

1795 [Northmore, Thomas] (1766-1851). Memoirs of Planetes, or a Sketch of the Laws and Manners of Makar. By Phileleutherus Devoniensis [pseud.]. London: Ptd. by Vaughan Griffiths. Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 137-97. L, PSt

Eutopia. Detailed constitution of thirty-one articles and the positive effects of adopting it. The first articles are concerned with democratic political reform and the reduction in the number of laws. Trial by jury. No capital punishment. Reform of inheritance. Improved education. Marriage and divorce civil not religious. Freedom of the press.