social divisions and the emergence of political and religious radicalism
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- Political and religious radicalism
- Levellers
- Beliefs
- The abolition of the House of Lords, making the Commons the central body in the political system.
- Universal male suffrage
- A new written constitution
- Equality before the law and religious freedom
- John Lilburne
- The Agreement of the People
- Impact
- There views were never popular with the gentry. But were popular with the rank and file in the new model army.
- Parliament imprisoned Lilburne in 1645.
- Beliefs
- Fifth Monarchists
- not politically active and influential until 1649, but the millenarian ideas associated with the fifth monarchists were becoming increasingly popular.
- they believed that the fifth great empire (after the greek, roman, Persian and Assyrian empires) would come to earth imminently with the return of Jesus.
- Believed that people should prepare for the second coming.
- Ranters
- a small group of preachers in London.
- believed those predestined were incapable of sin and could therefore ignore man made codes of social conduct.
- argument over whether they actually existed.
- Diggers
- 'True Levellers'
- They claimed that the ownership of land was based on man-made laws and there was no evidence in the bible to suggest they should be followed.
- They set up rural communities for the poor on common land.
- Levellers
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