ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Written during the English Revolution, Milton’s pamphlet argues that there exists a voluntary contract between free men and their rulers, and that if a ruler becomes a tyrant then the people have the right to depose him if the ordinary magistrates have not done so. The text is in the public domain.

Detailed explanation-2: -If men within themselves would be govern’d by reason, and not generally give up thir understanding to a double tyrannie, of Custom from without, and blind affections within, they would discerne better, what it is to favour and uphold the Tyrant of a Nation.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Milton did not advocate regicide.