Thus the political struggles of the mid-eighteenth century reflect this. ... Thus the struggles of the seventeenth century were still fresh in the minds of the British, in England and in the American colonies. ... After the upheavals of the seventeenth century the British established liberty as the principal goal of its constitution. ... The late seventeenth and most of the eighteenth centuries saw many upheavals in England, which helped to shape the major ideologies that would eventually become the fuel of the Revolution. ... This set the pattern of unrest that would carry on for the remainde...

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The following essays, which were the first of the Goodrich Lecture Series at Wabash College, examine the concept of liberty as it has been understood from antiquity through the twentieth century. ... The sixteenth century witnessed the emergence of philosophies of liberty opposed to those found in antiquity and the Middle Ages. ... The clearest sixteenth-century defender of the older concepts of liberty was Richard Hooker, who maintained that liberty, properly exercised, requires men to act in conformance with the traditional social, political, and religious orders, which enable them to serve...

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The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement occurring in Europe throughout the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... After in depth analysis of economies in centuries before, he came to the conclusion that getting rid of mercantilist monopolies and restrictions would give people more incentive to produce more product. ...

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This was going on during the mid-seventeenth-century,which was an era of repression, rebellion, and civil war, and there is an outpouring of political pamphlets and tracts, the most influential writings came from John Locke. ...

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Two brilliant philosophers of the seventeenth century developed theories on how humankind develops socially from the human state of nature. ... Locke favored a representative government and mostly supported a monarchy, which historically correlates with when and where he wrote his Second Treatise, in England in the 17th century. ...

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