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British political thought
Definition
- The British tradition of political thought represents a complex puzzle of intellectual history. Admirers like the French political commentator Baron de Montesquieu praised the British monarchy and its system of checks and balances as the very pinnacle of freedom in his 1748 Spirit of the Laws, whereas less than a half-century later critics like British political writer and activist Thomas Paine and many of the American revolutionaries portrayed the British system as the abyss of tyranny. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; British Political Thought]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/British_political_thought
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