Word: rainborough
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...Colonel Rainborough in the Putney Debates on manhood suffrage put it to Oliver Cromwell, "I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the richest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent put himself under that government." While St. Robert Bellarmine is entitled to the greatest credit for his unpopular thesis in those days that the authority of the Pope over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual, this is not nearly...
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