The democratic question in the seventeenth century: popular sovereignty, rights and suffrage in leveller thought

Authors

  • Javier Amadeo Universidade Federal de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i164p127-160

Keywords:

Levellers, history of the ideas, democratic theory

Abstract

The objective of the present text is to support the idea that the levellers had formed one of the more important radical democratic movements of modern history, defending a political program which articulated a series of principles that, in its all, configured a democratic proposal. These principles included: the notion of popular sovereignty, inalienable human rights, consensual government, universal political rights and religious tolerance

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Published

2011-06-30

How to Cite

AMADEO, Javier. The democratic question in the seventeenth century: popular sovereignty, rights and suffrage in leveller thought . Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 164, p. 127–160, 2011. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i164p127-160. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/19191.. Acesso em: 24 may. 2024.