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This document was the first Charter produced in 1839 by the Chartists. They made a variety of demands for further reform of parliament. It was presented to the House of Commons by Thomas Attwood and was reprinted in the Chartist Circular, 5 October 1839. Benjamin Disraeli supported the hearing of the Charter in parliament.
The People’s Charter and National Petition were formally adopted at a mass rally in Birmingham on the 6 August 1838, marking the beginning of Chartism. The Six Points Taken as a whole, the Six Points embodied the Chartist view that an individual should not be excluded from the political process or from having a say in the government of the ...
The People's Petition, 1838 Chartism was an English working class radical movement centered on a 'People's Charter" (1837) of six points. In 1838 a national Petition was collected and submitted to Parliament.
Chartism - People's Charter of 1838. People's Charter of 1838. In 1837, six Members of Parliament and six working men, including William Lovett, (from the London Working Men's Association, set up in 1836) formed a committee, which then published the People's Charter in 1838. This stipulated the six main aims of the movement as:
THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER. Below is the complete text of the People's Charter published by the London Working Men's Association. Its principal authors were William Lovett and Francis Place. The Charter was publicly launched at the Great Glasgow Demonstration on May 21st 1838, which Birmingham Chartist John Collins played a major part in bringing about.
The name ‘Chartists’ comes from the People’s Charter of 1838. This was a document detailing the six key points that the Chartists believed to be necessary in order to introduce a fair ...
1838 People's Charter. The 1832 Great Reform Act, which made wide-ranging changes to the electoral system, did little to increase the political rights of the working classes. In 1836, cabinet maker William Lovett formed the London Working Men's Association, which in 1838 published a People's Charter. Presented as a popular Magna Carta, its ...
