Putney Debates
October 28, 1647
In St. Mary's Church at Putney, officers of the New Model Army debated with radical Leveller rank-and-file the question of who should vote in an English commonwealth. The poorest he, said the Leveller Thomas Rainborough, hath a life to live as the greatest he. Democratic theory took a sudden leap.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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