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The use of the word of radial or radicalism originated in England in the 1820's. Certain philosophers coined the term to describe themselves. Its description spanned all social classes and was not determined by wealth or by fame. These self-called radicals had a number of things in common. One major item was that in the limited parliamentary government of England at that time, the believed that they were unrepresented. Also, they looked back a generation and saw the politics of the English-American Thomas Paine, as a man of words and ideas that ran contrary to the sign of the times. Every form of thinking in the 1820's to the radicals needed reform or a total reformation of thinking, and not at all related to the Protestant Reformation.

These radicals saw little value of simply improving current organizations, or basing ideas on what was deemed by them to be ingrown within social and business ideologies. One high profile institution they called for abolition was that of the British Monarchy.

Another change they demanded was that each man in England had the right to vote. This had evaded English thought for far too long, as far as they were concerned.

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