Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki
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. The idea of responsibility of the king was so revolutionary that for some time the book was forbidden in
England.