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Chartism

Chartism. Background. Industrial revolution E liminate the property qualification Secret ballot E liminating property qualifications for Members of Parliament P aying a salary to MPs M aking constituencies equal in size Mandating annual elections. Chartist Strategy (1).

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Chartism

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  1. Chartism

  2. Background • Industrial revolution • Eliminate the property qualification • Secret ballot • Eliminating property qualifications for Members of Parliament • Paying a salary to MPs • Making constituencies equal in size • Mandating annual elections

  3. Chartist Strategy (1) • As an extra-parliamentary movement, the question over how Chartism was to make an impact was of paramount importance. • Was Chartism to influence parliament through peaceful persuasion, or through threats and acts of violence?

  4. Chartist Strategy (2) • William Lovett and ‘Moral force’ Chartists

  5. Chartist Strategy (3) • Fergus O’Connor and ‘Physical Force’ Chartism • Anti-poor law riots • Power of government

  6. Would the Chartists have succeeded had moral force prevailed in 1939? • Nature of parliament – • Votes - 235 to 46 in 1839, 287 to 49 in 1842. • Portrayal of chartists in media. • “‘revolution,’ not ‘reform,’ is the object in view” (Morning Chronicle 23 Apr. 1841)

  7. “Peacefully if we can, forcibly if we must” • “I have told you to get Universal suffrage by moral force if possible, and moral means are sufficiently adequate to that end: but if moral means fail in obtaining Universal suffrage, get it or die in the attempt” (Fergus O’Connor)

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