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5 giorni fa · In October 1838 they formed the Leicester and Leicestershire Political Union to advance the cause of the People's Charter. At first, and on the whole, Chartism in Leicester was less violent than in the north of England.
1 giorno fa · In May 1838, the People's Charter was drawn up in the United Kingdom, demanding universal suffrage. Chartism continued to gain popularity, leading to the Newport Rising in 1839, the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
5 giorni fa · We mean what we say when we declare, that the 'Peoples Charter' contains a full measure of political justice, which would give to the people the means of redressing all wrongs, and that with Gods help we meant to obtain it.
4 giorni fa · Chartism was a mass movement for democratic rights that developed in the second half of the 1830s following the Great Reform Act of 1832. The Chartists were so called because of the six points of their Charter: 1. A vote for every male over 21. 2. A ballot held in secret. 3. No property qualification. 4. Payment of MPs. 5. Equal ...
4 giorni fa · A 'holy and peaceful pilgrimage' was planned to Glasgow, where reformers of a similar frame of mind were gathering together, and while in Glasgow in May 1838 Attwood and Douglas had talks with representatives of the London Working Men's Association, which had drafted the People's Charter.
1 giorno fa · In 1838, Chartists issued the People's Charter demanding manhood suffrage, equal sized election districts, voting by ballots, payment of MPs (so poor men could serve), annual Parliaments, and abolition of property requirements.
5 giorni fa · Parliamentary reform was itself fuelled by demands for colonial reform – tithe and ecclesiastical reform in Ireland, slave emancipation, the renewal of the East India Company’s Charter and military retrenchment – and the representative duties of the British parliament were contested by all sides of the Reform debate, just as ...
