Friday, June 25, 2004

Radical

In politics, one who desires extreme change of part or all of the social order. The word was first used in a political sense in England, and its introduction is generally ascribed to Charles James Fox, who in 1797 declared for a �radical reform� consisting of a drastic expansion of the franchise to the point of universal manhood suffrage. The term radical thereafter began

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