The English Levellers
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edited by Andrew Sharp
Cambridge University Press
A selection of key texts from the Levellers, the radical democratic movement which emerged on the Parliamentary side of the English Civil War in the late 1640s.
Includes the Levellers revolutionary blueprint for an English constitution, the Agreement of the People, and a report of the Putney debates, a classic confrontation between the rights of the majority and the rights of the propertied few, as well as writings by key Leveller thinkers such as John Lilburne, William Walwyn, and Richard Overton.
The volume also includes a useful introduction, bibliography, chronological table and biographical notes.
An Online version of the texts is available at constitution.org