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... Political theory and political practice THE COMMON - LAW MIND AND THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTION In the early seventeenth century most political thinking in England was narrow , unsystematic and set in ancient modes . During more than a ...
... Political theory and political practice THE COMMON - LAW MIND AND THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTION In the early seventeenth century most political thinking in England was narrow , unsystematic and set in ancient modes . During more than a ...
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... Political radicalism was also powerfully fuelled by religion . The preachers of the sectarian and lower - class Independent congregations were far readier than the orthodox Presbyterians to cry down all worldly hierarchies , and many of ...
... Political radicalism was also powerfully fuelled by religion . The preachers of the sectarian and lower - class Independent congregations were far readier than the orthodox Presbyterians to cry down all worldly hierarchies , and many of ...
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... political practice was negligible . In fact it was welcomed , and its ideas cited and borrowed , by defenders of both the Commonwealth and the Protectorate . Although most royalists disliked ... Political theory and political practice 9 61.
... political practice was negligible . In fact it was welcomed , and its ideas cited and borrowed , by defenders of both the Commonwealth and the Protectorate . Although most royalists disliked ... Political theory and political practice 9 61.
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Political theory and political practice | 34 |
Population economy and society in Miltons England | 72 |
The educational background | 102 |
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