Classical radicalism
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Radicalism was a political movement representing the leftward flank of liberalism between the late 18th and early 20th century. Certain aspects of the movement were precursors to a wide variety of mod
Jeremy Bentham
John Cartwright, founder of the Society for Constitutional Information and author of Take Your Choice and The English Constitution Produced and Illustrated.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Flyer for the Chartist demonstration on Kennington Common, 1848
Jacobins
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The Society of the Friends of the Constitution, renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality after 1792 and commonly known as the Jacobin Club or simply the Jacobins, was the m
Classical radicalism
…left wing of the Whig party who dissented from the party's conservative-liberalism and looked favourably upon the radical reforms being undertaken by French republicans, such as universal male suffrage. In 1797, Fox declared for a "radical reform" of the electoral system. This led to a general use of the term to identify…
The Jacobin Club was in the Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris.
Seal of the Jacobin Club from 1789 to 1792, during the transition from absolutism to constitutional monarchy
Engraving "Closing of the Jacobin Club, during the night of 27–28 July 1794, or 9–10 Thermidor, year 2 of the Republic"