ABSTRACT
The demise of feudalism and the triumph of liberal political theory rested on the cumulative effect of many political theorists. While Locke and Montesquieu loom large in this regard, the course of history was shaped too by the minority views offered by the likes of Hobbes, Filmer, Winstanley, Harrington, and many others. The total package added up to a quite unprecedented notion: all men were entitled to freedom of every sort-civil, religious, political, intellectual, and economic.
