Levellers
Britishnoun
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You might have heard of the Ranters and Levellers, whose pamphlets adorn a wall - but did you know about the Adamites?
From BBC ● May 23, 2023
The hippy-heavy crowd at Glastonbury were in thrall to the Levellers: swelled by gatecrashers, this is possibly the biggest-ever Glastonbury headliner crowd, estimated at 300,000 people.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2020
After Charles I was overthrown and beheaded, the Levellers and the Diggers pushed for radical equality and an end to land ownership—objectives that by the play’s end it is painfully clear they will not achieve.
From Slate ● May 7, 2018
Into this debate plunge the members of three new radical groups: the Diggers, the Ranters and the Levellers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
On the sect of Levellers, see Walker, History of the Independency, II, 152.
From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)
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