“Some were Levellers, an egalitarian movement that flowered briefly in the late 1640s. Strikingly modern in their aims, the Levellers wanted religious tolerance, manhood suffrage (the vote for all men), regular and accountable parliaments, and popular sovereignty, whereby those in… — Charles Spencer Copy Share Image
“Marlborough echoed his monarch’s hope that consensus politics could prevail. ‘There is nothing more certain than what you say, that either of the parties would be tyrants if they were let alone,’[111] he wrote to Sarah. ‘All parties are alike. And as I have taken my resolution of never doing any hardship to any man whatsoever, I shall by it… — Charles Spencer Copy Share
“Some were Levellers, an egalitarian movement that flowered briefly in the late 1640s. Strikingly modern in their aims, the Levellers wanted religious tolerance, manhood… — Charles Spencer Copy Share Image
