William Cobbett
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William Cobbett
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William Cobbett was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign activity, and raise wages, with the goal of easing poverty among farm labourers and small land holders. Cobbett backed lower taxes, saving, reversing commons enclosures and returning to the gold standard. He opposed borough-mongers, sinecurists, bureaucratic "tax-eaters" and stoc
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English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, 1763–1835
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cobbett
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2003-01-28T18:11:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T03:57:14Z
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