Abstract

Abstract The question of nature and what was natural proved to be one of the fundamental disputes of the Civil War. For conservative writers such as Hobbes, only the artificial construction of society could protect men and women from the brutality of the natural world and provide a decent life. For many Levellers and followers of Gerrard Winstanley, society had removed the natural rights of the people, and victory in the Civil War should restore what had been taken away by force. For the Levellers, the goal was to restore natural political rights; for the Diggers, such rights were meaningless without economic support and they sought to restore the natural rights of the people to the common land: what they thought should have been theirs all along.

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