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  2. Classical radicalism - Wikipedia

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    The Radical movement had its beginnings at a time of tension between the American colonies and Great Britain, with the first Radicals, angry at the state of the House of Commons, drawing on the Leveller tradition and similarly demanding improved parliamentary representation.

  3. Radicalism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Radical Republicans sought to guarantee civil rights for African Americans, ensure that the former Confederate states had limited power in the federal government, and promote free market capitalism in the South in place of a slave based economy. Many Radical Republicans were also supportive of Labor Unions, though this element would fade over time.

  4. Enragés - Wikipedia

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    The Enragés gained their name for their angry rhetoric appealing to the National Convention to take more measures that would benefit the poor. Jacques Roux , Jean-François Varlet , Jean Théophile Victor Leclerc and Claire Lacombe , the primary leaders of the Enragés, were strident critics of the National Convention for failing to carry out ...

  5. Radical politics - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary traces usage of 'radical' in a political context to 1783. [2] The Encyclopædia Britannica records the first political usage of 'radical' as ascribed to Charles James Fox, a British Whig Party parliamentarian who in 1797 proposed a 'radical reform' of the electoral system to provide universal manhood suffrage, thereby idiomatically establishing the term 'Radicals ...

  6. Powerful right-wing radicals are testing democratic checks ...

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    White House criticism of Israel after its right-wing coalition embarked on a plan to target judicial power is bringing a new kind of turbulence to one of America’s oldest friendships.

  7. The Radicalism of the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood argued that in the "classical republican tradition our modern distinction between positive and negative liberties was not yet clearly perceived, and the two forms of liberty were still often seen as one." Wood premised this argument with the notion that "public or political liberty—or what we ...

  8. ‘We know who the radicals are’: What people think of Florida ...

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  9. Radical beliefs in 'spiritual warfare' played a major role in ...

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    These meetings — and the religious philosophy that animated them — were a much bigger part of Jan. 6 than has previously been realized, argues Matthew D. Taylor, a scholar of Protestantism at ...