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The Rise of the Democracy

CHAPTER III
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This will we have.

Otherwise these tumults and our lives shall only be ended together." But though the method was revolution and the goal social democracy, Ket was no anarchist.

He proved himself a strong, capable leader, able to enforce discipline and maintain law and order in the rebel camp.

And with all his passionate hatred against the rule of the landlord, Ket would allow neither massacre nor murder.

There is no evidence that the life of a single landowner was taken while the rising lasted, though many were brought captive to Ket's judgment seat.
Ket was equally averse from civil war between the citizens of Norwich and the peasants.


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