Concept

Levellers

Overview

political movement during the English Civil War, committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Consent of the governed
• Ireland
• Columbia University Press
• Manifesto
• Oxford
• Oliver Cromwell
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Pamphlet
• Google Books
• Natural rights and legal rights
• Religious tolerance
• Bible
• Reformation
• Oxford University Press
• Representative democracy
• New York City
• City of London
• Cambridge University Press
• English Civil War
• Political movement

Place in the tradition

Part of Liberalism.

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