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Well a lot of course depends on how able they are to get their full manifesto so to speak into government and then avoiding corruption, either in terms of things like accumulations of wealth leading to say some sort of plutocracy or going full scale hard line republican like in France and...

Would agree. The Magna Carta was largely for the assorted nobles to check royal power and they possibly got away with it in part because John had also pissed off the church which normally opposed such checks on the power of anointed monarchs. It didn't stop a lot of autocratic rule in England...

The obvious possibility to me as a Brit is possibly The Levellers. If they had succeeded in winning out in the turmoil during the civil wars and assuming it hadn't descended into an autocratic chaos like France [1789 onward] or Russia [1917 onward] you might have seen much of that happening...