Law of Freedom in a Platform; or True Magistracy Restored

From the introduction . . . was the first serious and sober attempt in the Englihs language to restructure the whole of society along avowedly radical lines. It is by no meansa literary Utopia in the tradition of Thomas More and Francis Bacon it was designed as a blueprint for immediate and specific reform the adoption of which would -in the writer''s belief-allow the country to achieve an unprecedented degree of peace harmony and social justice. Itwas the final and most imprtant literary production of the Diggers a tiny band of mi-seenteenth-century visionaries who undertook to turn the political revolution that had just destroyed monarchical government into a social revolution that would remedy the economic grievances of generations of oppressed commoners.