Assessing Miranda’s political thinking necessarily opens up profound epistemological questions, transforming it into a test case about objectivity in history: Is it possible to analyse the political thought of a historical figure without being influenced by our present values? This is the key question from the “New Cambridge School of Political Thought”. As John Dunn wrote about Miranda, Wwe argue that a strict interpretation of objectivity - like what sustained John Dunn - prevents interpretation when perfect objectivity risks reducing history to stochastic events. On the contrary, through systematic contextual analysis, this book proposes an alternative method by trying to identify innovative ideas and proposals formulated by Miranda in opposition to his context and to compare them with what was much later considered the standard of democratic governance. The Precursor’s accuracy is objectively measurable by referencing factual elements through the degree of forecast of observable posterior regimes, whether they were “good or bad”, democratically chosen or not. Applying our criteria to Miranda’s thinking allows us to measure his degree of forwardness while respecting the Cambridge contextual analysis by comparing his principles with those prevailing in his time and those emerging later. The result shows that Miranda’s vision makes him a genuine precursor in the sense that his ideas of governance ultimately prevailed in the essential aspects of the Western world, at least until 2024.