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The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman
Kamis, 2026-01-29 10:30:49

The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthmen was written in 1959 by Caroline Robbins and traced the transmission of English republican and radical Whig ideas...

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Commonwealth men
Selasa, 2026-04-28 03:54:24

The Commonwealth men, Commonwealthmen, Commonwealth's men, or Commonwealth Party were highly outspoken British Protestant religious, political, and economic...

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United States Declaration of Independence
Kamis, 2026-06-04 18:39:23

independence movement took their origins mainly from the "eighteenth-century commonwealthmen, the radical Whig ideology", which in turn drew on the political thought...

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Mixed government
Kamis, 2026-05-21 12:42:05

whose fathers had fled England to escape sin". 18th-century Whigs, or commonwealthmen, such as John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon and Benjamin Hoadly "praised...

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Puritans
Senin, 2026-05-04 23:38:05

basis was largely provided by the Radical Whigs, specifically the Commonwealthmen, who had been inspired by earlier Puritan writers such as Algernon...

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Republicanism
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:02:48

republicanism flourished in the "country" party of the early 18th century (commonwealthmen), which denounced the corruption of the "court" party, producing a...

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Radical Whigs
Selasa, 2026-04-28 03:54:24

armies in the Standing Army Controversy. In the early 18th-century commonwealthmen were in the vanguard of Whig radicalism, in particular John Trenchard...

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John Streater
Selasa, 2025-07-08 06:50:04

republican critic of the regime" He was a leading example of the "commonwealthmen", one division among the English republicans of the period, along with...

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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 05:56:54

advocating a cautious policy. His economic ideas were influenced by the Commonwealthmen of Edward VI's reign: he believed in the necessity of safeguarding...

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Matthew Tindal
Senin, 2026-05-25 14:42:58

Matthew Tindal (1657 – 16 August 1733) was an eminent English deist author. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great...

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Grecian Coffee House
Minggu, 2026-01-25 19:39:00

1690s, the Grecian Coffee House was the favoured meeting place of the Commonwealthmen, a group of Radical Whigs that included John Trenchard, Andrew Fletcher...

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Caroline Robbins
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 17:52:51

historians such as Bernard Bailyn who drew on Robbins’s concept of the Commonwealthmen to trace the transmission of civic republican ideas into the political...

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Classical republicanism
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:04:24

republicanism flourished in the "country" party of the early 18th century (commonwealthmen), which denounced the corruption of the "court" party, producing a...

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Andrew Fletcher (patriot)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:49:56

help fight foreign wars, and he drifted into the more oppositional Commonwealthmen faction for who he would write leaflets. His estates were restored...

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Good Old Cause
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 05:52:58

Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 121, ISBN 978-0-313-28391-8 definition of Commonwealthmen who espoused the Good Old Cause (described on pp. 211–212). Woolrych...

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John Toland
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 09:30:30

writing political tracts in support of the Whig cause, particularly its Commonwealthmen faction. Many scholars know him for his role as either the biographer...

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John Trenchard (writer)
Minggu, 2026-02-22 11:19:43

then in the British Journal. These essays became a cornerstone of the Commonwealthmen tradition. Republicanism Liberalism Contributions to liberal theory...

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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Jumat, 2026-04-10 22:55:24

that Americans were indeed influenced, on a massive scale, by these [commonwealthmen] libertarian articles and pamphlets...The most important shaper of...

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Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth
Minggu, 2026-04-12 00:54:59

influential Whig ministers. Instead he became the center of the more radical Commonwealthmen faction of the Whigs and the Earl of Shaftesbury regarded him as a...

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Minggu, 2026-04-12 07:47:34

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (26 February 1671 – 16 February 1713) was an English Whig politician, philosopher and writer. He was born...

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William Stephens (minister)
Kamis, 2025-10-23 16:56:14

skepticism. A strong Whig he was regarded as one of the radical whig Commonwealthmen. On 30 January 1700 he was asked to preach the traditional sermon before...

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William Hazlitt (Unitarian minister)
Selasa, 2026-04-21 16:10:01

him with the "Real Whig" political tendency that developed from the commonwealthmen of the seventeenth century, and which was characterised by republican...

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Thomas Gordon (writer)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 23:52:07

Thomas Gordon (c. 1691 – 28 July 1750) was a Scottish writer and Commonwealthman. Along with John Trenchard, he published The Independent Whig, which was...

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Benjamin Hoadly
Selasa, 2026-06-02 11:09:13

favour with the Whig party and was regarded as one of the more radical Commonwealthmen. He battled with Francis Atterbury, who was the spokesman for the high...

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