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...advocate who was tried for high treason in 1794 after suffering nine months' solitary confinement in the Tower.
Thelwall was the key theorist, organizer, and orator in the movement for radical democratic reform in 1790's England. The movement presents a fascinating and complex story. It gathered political force and intellectual energy from the revolutions in America and France, yet some of its provenance lay in long-standing national and constitutional ideology. Members were drawn from the ranks of dissenters, rationalists, internationalists, Christian millenialists, Whigs (some, and briefly), incipient feminists, and liberal idealists. Arguments were drawn from sources as contradictory as the King James Bible and Tom Paine's skeptical The Rights of Man.
As fascinating as is this melange of players and scripts, action reaches high drama. The lively tavern debates of the London Corresponding Society incubated modern democracy as well as the labor union movement; the acquittal of treason charges in...
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