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  An Arrow Against All Tyrants -...

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  In 1646 in Newgate Gaol in London, a political activist, Richard Overton, penned a pamphlet that contained dangerous ideas. An Arrow Against All Tyrants asserted the inalienable rights of the individual.
  'No man has power over my rights and liberties, and I over no man's... For by natural birth all men are equally and alike born to like propriety, liberty and freedom.'
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  It is introduced by Ian Gadd, Professor of English Literature at Bath Spa University, who sets Overton's work into its literary and historical context.
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  Introduction by Ian Gadd (excerpt)
  In October 1646, somewhere on the streets of London, the bookseller George Thomason picked up a scruffily printed work entitled An Arrow Against all Tyrants and Tyranny by Richard Overton (fl. 1640-63) and, as was his habit, noted the date of his latest acquisition on its title-page. Thomason had been systematically collecting all sorts of printed items since 1640 and An Arrow was just the latest example of what he and his contemporaries would have called a pamphlet – a word that, of course, still has currency today but that lacks much of the potency and meaning that it had for Overton's first readers.
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  Life in the UK Test Study Guide...

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  The 48 Laws of Power

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  Summary of Mark R Levin's...

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mark R. Levin's American Marxism 
    
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