The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution Agreements of People,Levellers and Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution

by Baker, Philip; Vernon, Elliot

• ISBN13: 9780230542709
• ISBN10: 0230542700
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In the first ever book on the Agreements of the People, the essays explore the origins, impact and legacy of the attempt to settle the nation by a written constitution at the height of the English Revolution. The volume sheds new light on the Levellers, the army, the nature of civil war radicalism and the fragmentation of the Parliamentarian cause.

Author Biography

PHILIP BAKER is a senior research Officer at the Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK.

ELLIOT VERNON is a barrister in London, formerly of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction; E.Vernon& P.Baker
Oaths, Covenants, Associations and the Origins of the Agreements of the People: The Road To and From Putney; T.Vallance
The People of the Agreements: The Levellers, Civil War Radicalism and Political Participation; J.Peacey
Constitutionalism: Ancient, Modern and Early Modern in the Agreements of the People; D.A.Orr
Localism, the Levellers and the Campaign for Constitutional Change; P.Baker
Freedom of Conscience and the Agreements of the People; R.Foxley
The New Model Army and the Constitutional Crisis of the Later 1640s; I.Gentles
Drafting the Officers’ Agreement of the People: A Reappraisal; F.Henderson
‘A Firme and Present Peace; Upon Grounds of Common Right and Freedome’: The Debate on the Agreements of the People and the Crisis of the Constitution, 1647-59; E.Vernon
Diggers, True Levellers and the Crisis of the English Revolution; A.Hughes
The Agreements of the People and the Constitutions of the Interregnum Governments; D.L.Smith
Afterword; M.Mendle