A well-written historical treatise defending the Huguenot resistance. While it is clear that later revolutionary philosophers would draw much from the framework established in this work, the vindicae tyrannos is not in itself a revolutionary work. It condemns tyrants but it urges their overthrow through proper legal means, through the resistance, not of the common peasantry, but of the lower magistrates and Christian princes. I found the reformed theological perspective on the duty of kings and magistrates of this time period to be fascinating.

Ps. I found the introduction to be rather amusing in that Sunshine seems to be a bit disappointed that Vindicae is not very American.