Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author:
David M. Hart
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Journal of Libertarian Studies, 5, no. 3 (1981) The Intellectual Origins of Liberal Anti-statism 1. Edmund Burke, William Godwin and Benjamin Constant The origins of liberal anti-statism go back at least to the radical dissent of the Levellers in the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. Their efforts to defend themselves against the