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In 1832, Parliament passed a law that changed the British electoral system. It was known as the Great Reform Act, which basically gave the vote to middle class men, leaving working men...
Robert Pearce introduces the First Reform Act and asks why parliamentary reform succeeded in 1832 when earlier reform bills had failed. The Terms of the Act. To the Whig historians of the nineteenth century, the Great Reform Act of 1832 was a far-sighted and generous measure.
the Great Reform Bill of 1832 transformed the rhetoric and reality of political life. * * * The Great Reform Bill raised great expectations among tens of thousands of Englishmen in 1831 and 1832. Lord John Russell's measure, introduced in March 1831, certainly proposed revisions in England's political order drastic enough to generate excitement.
Great Reform Act. Quick Reference. 1832. The first major reform of the representative system since the time of Cromwell. Lord Grey saw reform as a means of satisfying the desire of the respectable middle classes for greater representation and the character of the Act was accordingly moderate. The principal changes were: 1.
England's frenzy over the Reform Bill in 1831, coupled with the effect of the bill itself upon its enactment in 1832, unleashed a wave of political modernization that the Whig Party eagerly harnessed and the Tory Party grudgingly, but no less effectively, embraced. Reform quickly destroyed the political system that had
‘Great’ Reform Act. became law in June 1832. Despite the name given to it by its supporters, historians now think that the reforms in the ‘Great’ Reform Act were quite moderate. It did remove many ‘rotten boroughs’ (such as Old Sarum) that had fewer than 2,000 voters but still elected 2 MPs.
The Great Reform Act, 1832. Officially entitled "An Act to amend the Representation of the People in England and Wales", this was one of several major Acts that expanded the franchise and altered the electoral system in the nineteenth century. Title. The Great Reform Act, 1832. Date. 1832. Catalogue number.
