近代デモクラシーと共和制の成立(下)-1

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In 1648 the Levellers continued to press for the removal of King Charles I and the implementation of their social and political reforms. In the autumn of that year they held the balance between the manoeuvring parties of king, Parliament (Presbyterians) and army grandees (Independents). For a time they collaborated with representatives of Parliament and the army in attempt to draw up a new '(Second) Agreement of the People' on which all might agree. But with Pride's Purge and the execution of Charles I the Levellers ceased to hold, the balance. Their support in the New Model Army melted away when the new government paid off soldiers' arrers and raised their pay. In 1649 the Levellers leaders were imprisoned and their followers crushed by military force. But by then the levellers had exerted an influence out of all proportion to their numbers; and they had pinoeered methodes of agitation by petition, pamphlet, party organisation and public demonstration that were to have a long subsequent history.
桃山学院大学の論文
1989-09-30