Editing Michael Chaucer (section)

=== Involvement with Partia Democratica ===
Emerging from his decade long hiatus from political activism sometime between 1825 and 1827, Chaucer became involved with ''Partia Democratia'', an underground radical political party founded in the late 1810s. He wrote under the pseudonym, ''Calceolarius'', a Latinization of his surname. Like Chaucer, the faction advocated for the eradication of the Provisional Government in favor of a republican governing body. Chaucer aided in the secret distribution of the party's official newsletters from 1829 until the outbreak of civil war in 1837. On two occasions, Chaucer was arrested for his alleged involvement with ''Partia Democratia'', but was exonerated in both cases.

In 1833, Chaucer contributed a lengthy article, which he claimed to have been drafting sporadically since 1818, to ''Partia''<nowiki/>'s spring pamphlet. It provided an indelibly concrete and vivid explanation of what a republican government might look like when implemented after the removal of the present regime in Iustitia. The article was well received, drawing many new faces to the cause. More importantly, Chaucer's contribution would go on to serve as the rough groundwork for the [[Maximusian Constitution]] in 1840.

Teetering on the brink of civil war by 1835, the Provisional Government made the decision to force all privately held papers to suspend distribution. Chaucer, at that point a junior editor of the ''Poplar Ridge Gazette'', and Francis Copper, the paper's editor-in-chief, began allowing republican partisans to stockpile rifles and smoothbore firearms in their now-closed shop's storehouse. Disaster soon struck, however, when the storehouse and property was raided by Provisional Government soldiers. Copper was arrested, remaining in prison until the end of the war, and Chaucer was forced to collect his family and flee to the frontier, eventually making his way to [[Litudinem]], where he remained in hiding until the onset of open conflict.