Artigo
Ver fonte original- Autor
- Alberto Ribeiro Gonçalves de Barros
- Revista
- Cadernos de Ética e Filosofia Política
- Edição
- 2 / 17
- Ano
- 2010
- DOI
- 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v2i17p7-20
- Páginas
- 7-20
- Idioma
- pt
2010Alberto Ribeiro Gonçalves de Barros. Levellers e os direitos e liberdades constitucionais. Cadernos de Ética e Filosofia Política, v. 2, n. 17, p. 7-20, 2010.2
The aim of this paper is to present the Levellers’ main political ideas as wellas to evaluate the assertion of some scholars that they were the first modern democratswho proposed a written constitution for the protection of natural and inalienable rights.It intends to discuss whether it is possible to see the defence of constitutional rights andfreedoms in their pamphlets, almost all written between 1646 and 1649, particularly in thedifferent versions of Agreement of the People.