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    Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the Reform Act 1832, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of the Parliament of the United...
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    Scottish Reform Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 65) was an act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the election laws of Scotland. The act was...
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  • Representation of the People Act. These began with the Reform Act 1832, Reform Act 1867, and the Representation of the People Act 1884, to increase the electorate...
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    Representation of the People Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 102), known as the Reform Act 1867 or the Second Reform Act, is an act of the British Parliament...
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    British Political Unions had successfully petitioned for the Great Reform Act 1832 that eliminated much political corruption in the British parliamentary...
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    Titles Act 1896. The short title of the act of the Irish Parliament is Act of Union (Ireland) 1800 (40 Geo. 3. c. 38 (I)), assigned by a 1951 act of the...
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    franchise in Scotland and Ireland with the Scottish Reform Act 1832 and the Irish Reform Act 1832. He resigned as prime minister in 1834 over disagreements...
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    explicitly banned from voting in Great Britain until the Reform Act 1832 and the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. In 1872 the fight for women's suffrage became...
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    and Wales. The legislation was part of the reform programme of the Whigs and followed the Reform Act 1832, which had abolished most of the rotten boroughs...
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    Act 1920 described Great Britain, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland as "countries" in provisions relating to taxation. The Northern Ireland Act 1998...
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    commitment to civil and political rights, cultural parity of esteem, police reform, paramilitary disarmament and early release of paramilitary prisoners, followed...
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    but whose zeal was chiefly devoted to securing the passage of the Reform Act 1832. The club held its first meeting at No. 104 Pall Mall on 5 May 1836...
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  • about reform. Forty years after the Society of the Friends of the People was formed, the Reform Act 1832 helped establish the parliamentary reform that...
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    Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 67) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act's long title was "An Act to provide for the...
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    the Reform Act 1832, the previous record having been held by William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, who was 20 years and 11 months old when elected in 1832. Black...
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  • constituencies as a result of the Reform Act 1832, which took effect for the election of the same year. Since 1832, only those registered to vote can...
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    Following Anne's succession to the throne, the Parliament of Scotland passed the Act of Security 1704 which stipulated that the Parliament of Scotland had the...
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    constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act of 1832, which had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to...
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    of Scotland in March 1707, followed shortly thereafter by an equivalent act of the Parliament of England. They put into effect the international Treaty...
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    Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 88), commonly called the Irish Reform Act 1832, was an act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging...
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    of the British Empire, and the electoral system refashioned by the Reform Act 1832. Although William did not engage in politics as much as his brother...
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    Act has been amended by: Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 Constitutional Reform Act 2005 Scotland Act 2012 Wales Act 2014 Scotland Act 2016...
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  • Until the Reform Act 1832, there were eight constituencies in the Parliament of England and its successors related to the Cinque Ports. The cinque port...
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    which continued with some boundary changes until 1983. Until the Great Reform Act 1832, the borough consisted of the three parishes of the town of Maldon...
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    from the subsequent Laws in Wales Act 1542, which led to ambiguity about its status as part of England or Wales.) The Act also extended the Law of England...
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    later given powers to provide policing and build public buildings. The Reform Act 1832 gave Birmingham its first representation in Parliament initially with...
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    provided Northern Ireland, which had been created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, an option to opt out of the Irish Free State (Article 12), which was...
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  • guarantee their successful operation. The greatest success of the Reformers was the Reform Act 1832. It gave the rising urban middle classes more political power...
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    The British Nationality Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 56) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on British nationality law which defined British...
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    Archived from the original on 12 July 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2022. "Reform Politics". Reform Party Scotland. "LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION POST-REFERENDUM PARLIAMENTARY...
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