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Sport is one of life's great levellers and it is the source of many a heartening tale.
To gain support for regicide, the Levellers compromised the universality of the commons.
These uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed, as were the Levellers in England after the Civil War.
The Levellers broke down organs in churches during the English 17th-century Civil War.
The Levellers developed from a demand for individual freedom of conscience, to demand a comparable political liberty for the individual.
Among his political collaborators were artisans, Levellers, former Cromwellian soldiers and republicans.
In England there were leaders like Oliver Cromwell with his New Model Army and radical groups like the Levellers.
He starts with the famous debates that took place in Putney Church in 1647 between the Cromwellian grandees and the radical Levellers.
The Levellers, the strongest of the radical groups, demanded an end to King, Lords and Commons, and rule by Parliament.
By December 1648 the Levellers dominated London, keeping the more moderate members away by force and threat of force.
We learn how the ideas of the Ranters, Levellers and the Diggers filtered into the common-sense of this labouring class.
He relates himself to Milton and the puritan revolution, and the Levellers, and Thomas Paine.
The Levellers and Diggers had already been under keen scrutiny before and during the Second World War, but they received fresh and more critical attention.
Using a mixture of readings and commentary, he ranges from More's Utopia through the English Civil War period with its Levellers, Ranters and Diggers.
Waldron recognises Locke's debt to the most plebeian elements of the English revolution and thinks that he is closer to the Levellers than is often supposed.
It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within.
Groups such as the Diggers and the Levellers believed that after the execution of Charles I, a biblical monarchy was nigh and that Jesus would be the king.
He would clearly have marched with the Diggers and the Levellers, almost as much the enemies of Cromwell's authoritarianism as of Charles' belief in the divine right of kings.
Levellers were primarily concerned with the civil and political rights of small scale property owners and workers.
The Levellers gave up all attempts to rouse the country and army to open rebellion, and started to conspire ineffectually in secret.
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Danger also there is at home, both from Cavaliers and levellers, which necessitates us to erect the major-generals.
He treated the levellers with some severity and showed his instinctive dislike to revolutionary proposals.
But the old Jacobins of the last century, the levellers of the beginning of this, are a race rapidly becoming extinct.
At first they only roared against the roar of the surfacers and levellers.
Have no anarchists, rioters, and levellers been found among them?
The levellers have their poet, and he made them a song with a fine lilt.
Every town and village in the kingdom had its coterie of levellers.
They are Baptists, Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Quakers, Fifth Monarchists, and Muggletonians.
Levellers Static On The Airwaves SUMMER festivals wouldn't be the same without a wee dance to the Levellers.
Levellers play Eclectica at St Helens tomorrow Admission is free' For details see www.
The Levellers at Newcastle Carling Academy THERE was a time you could spot a Levellers fan, apparently.
For two decades, The Levellers have been producing heart-on-their-sleeve punk folk for the discerning masses.
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