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The Enlightenment in Britain, to David Hume
It was Britain's Whigs who supported constitutional monarchy and government based upon the consent of the governed.
They also believed that Britain's "Glorious Revolution" of 1688-89 was justified in attaining such a government.
Voltaire diderot rousseau et montesquieu biography
Among the Whigs were wealthy businessmen and a few progressive aristocrats. In the area of religious faith, some Whigs saw themselves as having a view of God more progressive than that of the established religions, mainly the Church of England, whose Supreme Governor remained Britain's monarch.
Among the Whigs were pantheists, believing that God was everywhere.
The pantheists were responding to Newtonian physics, seeing th