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“Equality of estates caused equality of power, and equality of power is liberty.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 15 marks
  • Equality and Liberty

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The statement is James Harrington's, from The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656), written under Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate: equal estates produce equal power, which he called the liberty not only of the commonwealth, but of every man. Liberty is made to depend on how property, the chief source of power, is distributed.

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