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Putney Debates

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John Fitzpatrick

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John Fitzpatrick is director of the Kent Law Clinic at the University of Kent, England.

The Putney Debates, by The Levellers, with an introduction by Geoffrey Robertson, is published by Verso. (Buy this book from Amazon(UK).)

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