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The Levellers, a group of English dissidents in the 1640's, "called for an extension of suffrage to include almost all the adult male population, electoral reform, biennial elections, religious freedom, and an end to imprisonment for debt."

They were ultimately crushed by Oliver Cromwell in 1649 IOTL, and for the most part receded into history, but they retain the distinction of being the first political movement organized around contemporary democratic ideas.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is for the Levellers to achieve power and succeed in enacting the reforms listed above. Bonus points for further speculation on what an English democracy with universal male suffrage would look like in the late 1600's.
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