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Commonwealthmen  

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  • The Commonwealthmen were late seventeenth-and eighteenth-century British political writers who championed the cause of limited government and individual freedom following the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689. Sometimes referred to as “real whigs” or “old whigs,” Commonwealthmen urged constant vigilance against those in power. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Commonwealthmen]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-Z80099V5-6

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