ABSTRACT
The right to repulse force by force and the right to self-defence in a case of necessity played an important role. The right to self-defence in a case of necessity was included in statutory law only two years after the deliberations at Torgau, in 1532. Selinus s treatise thus did not return to the argument of the early 1530s; it amounted to a new line of argument about self-defence. For a long time, inquiries into accounts of resistance restricted themselves to asking who was allowed to draw the sword. The lower the social status of those mentioned in an argument, the more libertarian that argument was meant to be. The claim that urban resistance - like the Magdeburg one - and accounts of urban government - like those of Martin Bucer of Strasbourg - were substantially different in their political potential is so pervasive that there needs to be some more evidence to the contrary.
