Philip Hunton (c. 1600–1682) was an English clergyman and political writer, known for his May 1643 anti-absolutist work A Treatise of Monarchy.
[1] At the time of publication, it provoked a much better-known rebuttal, the 1648 Anarchy of a Limited and Mixed Monarchy by Robert Filmer.
This was an admission which, however faithful to the facts of the moment, worked havoc to all accustomed political reasoning.Christopher Hill, however, calls him a "representative thinker".
Unlike some other Parliamentary supporters, in his reprisals, Hunton remained consistent throughout, as one can see in his Vindication of the Treatise of Monarchy of March 1644.
Unlike Henry Parker, who arguably moderated some of his claims regarding popular sovereignty in Jus Populi (in the face of John Maxwell's January treatise and Ferne's work), and William Bridge (whose work takes on a distinctively more radical note), Hunton essentially repeats all his points unchanged.