Sport is one of life's great levellers and it is the source of many a heartening tale. |
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To gain support for regicide, the Levellers compromised the universality of the commons. |
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These uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed, as were the Levellers in England after the Civil War. |
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The Levellers broke down organs in churches during the English 17th-century Civil War. |
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The Levellers developed from a demand for individual freedom of conscience, to demand a comparable political liberty for the individual. |
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Among his political collaborators were artisans, Levellers, former Cromwellian soldiers and republicans. |
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In England there were leaders like Oliver Cromwell with his New Model Army and radical groups like the Levellers. |
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He starts with the famous debates that took place in Putney Church in 1647 between the Cromwellian grandees and the radical Levellers. |
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The Levellers, the strongest of the radical groups, demanded an end to King, Lords and Commons, and rule by Parliament. |
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By December 1648 the Levellers dominated London, keeping the more moderate members away by force and threat of force. |
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We learn how the ideas of the Ranters, Levellers and the Diggers filtered into the common-sense of this labouring class. |
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He relates himself to Milton and the puritan revolution, and the Levellers, and Thomas Paine. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Levellers were primarily concerned with the civil and political rights of small scale property owners and workers. |
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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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There had been rumours after the Broadway meeting of January 1648, that Levellers were conspiring with Royalists to overthrow the new republic. |
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The Levellers had a strong following in the New Model Army with whom his work was influential. |
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Philip Baker re-evaluates the well-worn topic of the Levellers and the franchise. |
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It was the campaign to free him from prison which spawned the political party called the Levellers. |
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The Leveller Thomas Rainborough responded, relying on Overton's arguments, that the Levellers required respect for others' natural rights. |
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The Levellers emerged as a political movement in mid 17th Century England in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation. |
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Headliners to date include Runrig, Van Morrison, The Levellers and KT Tunstall. |
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In contrast Levellers argued that all men who are not servants, alms recipients or beggars, should be considered as property owners and be given voting rights. |
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The ideas of the Levellers on property and civil and political rights remained influential and were advanced in the subsequent 1688 Glorious Revolution. |
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The views of the Levellers, who enjoyed support amongst small scale property owners and craftsmen, were not shared by all revolutionary parties of the English Civil War. |
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Levellers views on the right to property, and the right not to be deprived of property as a civil and political right, were developed by the pamphleteer Richard Overton. |
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The Levellers were a political movement during the English Civil War that emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance. |
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