Commonwealthman

Other radicals looked for inspiration to England again – though, interestingly, neither to Voltaire's commercial nor Montesquieu's constitutional paragon, but rather to the seventeenth-century Commonwealthmen.

Machiavelli had a decisive influence on the English political thinker and commonwealthman James Harrington, who in turn had an enormous impact on Irish patriots such as John Toland, Robert Molesworth and Francis Hutcheson.