Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the Reform Act 1832, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United...
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Scottish Reform Act 1832, a similar reform applying to Scotland. Irish Reform Act 1832, a similar reform applying to Ireland. Reform Act 1867 (also...
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The Scottish Reform Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the election laws of Scotland. The act was passed at approximately...
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British Political Unions had successfully petitioned for the Great Reform Act of 1832 that eliminated much political corruption in the English Parliamentary...
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Rotten and pocket boroughs (section Reform)
constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act 1832, which had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to...
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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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Representation of the People Act 1884 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 3), also known informally as the Third Reform Act, and the Redistribution Act of the following year were...
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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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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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Acts of Union 1800 (redirect from 1801 Act of Union)
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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Acts of Union 1707 (redirect from 1707 Act of Union)
Parliament passed a similar Act, 6 Ann. c. 8. Soon after the Union, the Act 6 Ann. c. 40—later named the Union with Scotland (Amendment) Act 1707—united the Privy...
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The 1832 United Kingdom general election was the first United Kingdom general election held in the Reformed House of Commons following the Reform Act, which...
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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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Kingdom) before it was reformed by the Reform Act 1832, the Irish Reform Act 1832, and the Scottish Reform Act 1832. Until the Act of Union of 1707, which...
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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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Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom (redirect from Speaker's Conference on electoral reform (1917))
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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three Reform Acts of the nineteenth century brought about some order by amending franchises in a uniform manner (see Reform Act 1832, Reform Act 1867 and...
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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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The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1832, commonly called the Irish Reform Act 1832, was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging...
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leader of multiple reform movements. During his time as prime minister, his government brought about two notable reforms. The Reform Act 1832 enacted parliamentary...
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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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Parts) Act 1844, when it became the Hundred of Norham in Northumberland, to which it had already been united for Parliamentary purposes by the Reform Act 1832...
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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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now possible following the Act of Emancipation in 1829, supported by the electorate approved under the Irish Reform Act 1832. On its failure by the late...
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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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History of local government in England (redirect from County Rates Act 1738)
of modern government in England began with the Great Reform Act of 1832. The impetus for this act was provided by corrupt practices in the House of Commons...
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time after World War I. It is sometimes referred to as the Fifth Reform Act. The 1928 Act widened suffrage by giving women electoral equality with men. It...
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Congress enacted the Uniform Congressional District Act.[citation needed] Redistricting Reform Act 1832 Rotten and pocket boroughs United States congressional...
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Royal burgh (redirect from Royal Burghs (Scotland) Act 1833)
burghs. Those qualified to vote in parliamentary elections under the Reform Act 1832 were now entitled to elect burgh councillors. Before the reign of David...
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The Government of Ireland Act 1920 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act's long title was "An Act to provide for the better government...
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