What was the importance of the Wilkes affair?
A) It directly caused a movement in Great Britain that was close to identical to the Enlightenment movements taking place on the rest of the European continent.
B) It resulted in a movement led by a new group known as the Levellers to form a virtually new political order.
C) It showed that while government officials were concerned about the actions of Enlightenment thinkers, the public largely ignored these thinkers and their message.
D) It demonstrated that the press had not been established yet and that movements for free speech had not yet begun.
E) It gave some of the most substantial evidence at the time that the Enlightenment might have political results different from those the absolutist monarchs had intended.
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