The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused
of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both
Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War,
seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel, was shot through the arm, and nearly lost an
eye in a pike accident. In the course of all this, he fought
important legal battles for the rights to remain silent, to open
trial, and to trial by his peers. He was twice acquitted by juries
in very public trials, but nonetheless spent the bulk of his adult
life in prison or exile. He is best known, however, as the most
prominent of the Levellers, who campaigned for a government based
on popular sovereignty two centuries before the advent of mass
representative democracies in Europe. Michael Braddick explores the
extraordinary and dramatic life of 'Freeborn John': how his
experience of political activism sharpened and clarified his ideas,
leading him to articulate bracingly radical views; and the changes
in English society that made such a career possible. Without land,
established profession, or public office, successive governments
found him sufficiently alarming to be worth imprisoning, sending
into exile, and putting on trial for his life. Above all, through
his story, we can explore the life not just of John Lilburne, but
of revolutionary England itself - and of ideas fundamental to the
radical, democratic, libertarian, and constitutional traditions,
both in Britain and the USA.
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