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Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki, Laurentius Grimaldius Gosliscius, 1530-1607, was Polish political thinker and philosopher most known from the book De optimo senatore, 1568 (The Accomplished senator, English translation 1598). In that book he advocated that law is above the ruler, and that it is illegal to rule over people against their will. Many of the ideas in the book were actually the foundations of
Polish Nobles' Democracy (1505-1795) based on earlier XIVth century works of Stanislaw of Skarbimierz. Yet for example in England the idea of responsibility of the king was so revolutionary that for some time the book was forbidden there.
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