The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution [electronic resource] /
Vernon, Elliot.author.
Baker, P.editor.
The Agreements of the People were a series of written constitutions proposed variously by Levellers, soldiers and citizens for the settlement of the nation at the height of the English Revolution. The essays in this book explore the various Agreements in the context of the constitutional crisis that engulfed England in the late 1640s and 1650s.
Includes index.
The Agreements of the People were a series of written constitutions proposed variously by Levellers, soldiers and citizens for the settlement of the nation at the height of the English Revolution. The essays in this book explore the various Agreements in the context of the constitutional crisis that engulfed England in the late 1640s and 1650s.
Oaths, covenants, associations and the origins of the Agreements of the People : the road to and from Putney / Edward Vallance -- The people of the agreements : the Levellers, civil war radicalism and political participation / Jason Peacey -- Constitutionalism : ancient, modern and early modern in the Agreements of the People / D. Alan Orr -- The Levellers, decentralisation and the Agreements of the People / Philip Baker -- Freedom of conscience and the Agreements of the People / Rachel Foxley -- The New Model Army and the constitutional crisis of the later 1640s / Ian Gentles -- Drafting the officers' Agreement of the People, 1648-49 : a reappraisal / Frances Henderson -- 'A firme and present peace; upon grounds of common right and freedome' : the debate on the Agreements of the People and the crisis of the constitution, 1647-59 / Elliot Vernon -- Diggers, true Levellers and the crisis of the English Revolution / Ann Hughes -- The Agreements of the People and the constitutions of the interregnum governments / David L. Smith.
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