"The basis of Leveller politics was original in that it was not founded on religious doctrine. What the Levellers sought was a secular republic, without religious direction from the state. In common with later liberals they called for the abolition of tithes, the feudal fee charged to pay for the state church. They argued for complete religious tolerance, a position which was markedly radical for the time."

"The Levellers' political ambitions involved a remodelling of the English political process along the lines of a more egalitarian, less class-driven regime. They held (in the words of Richard Overton) that "by natural birth all men are equally and alike borne to like propriety, liberty and freedom", and that government should be a contract between equal citizens. Their manifesto included: universal suffrage for all adult males, biannual or annual elections, complete religious freedom, an end to the censorship of books and newspapers, the abolition of the monarchy and the House of Lords, trial by jury, an end to taxation of people earning less than £30 a year, and a maximum interest rate of six percent."
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"A closer examination of the Levellers, however, reveals them as lineal ancestors of a distinctly libertarian school of political thought, having much more in common with certain free market and classical liberal intellectual trends within the British libertarian movement, and Conservative Party, than with contemporary socialism. The Levellers' principled call for the abolition of monarchy and a republican government also predates much of the continuing controversy over the monarchy today."
The Levellers: Libertarian Radicalism & The English Civil War, by David Hoile