Reform Act 1832

Extraits

[...] This reform was aimed at breaking the monopoly of the parliamentary presentation kept by the upper class and the gentry (which is especially country). Although the act of Reform gives more presentation of medium classes, it caused evil also. After the act was crossed, it caused of riots as in Bristol board (the worst in England in 19th century). Several buildings were burnt some persons were killed while other were sentenced to death. This riot also instilled a fright in the government of a possible revolution, especially since other European nations were subjected to governmental change in epoch. [...]

[...] We are going to study one of the most important : the Reform Act of 1832, his reasons . I. The beginning of universal suffrage with the permission of vote for the medium classes. In 1832 under the reign of William IV, Reform Act establishes an electoral system based on a tax qualification, to the detriment of the laboured classes. Reform Act opens the way to masculine universal suffrage because this last allowed giving more power of the medium classes, instead of the upper class. [...]

[...] What by the lack of change in presentation, by the abundance of industrial activity and therefore among workers drove a representative insufficiency. Conclusion : This inequality will be later solved by London Working Men's Association aimed by reformist workers later works out the charter of the People in 1837. Reform Act of 1832 is part of the most important constitutional texts of the History of United Kingdom with Magna Carta (1215) which restricts the power of the Crown and The Bill of Rights (1689) which spreads the powers of the Parliament. [...]

[...] The popular classes fell away. The revendications of the working classes puts on in place, it is what they are going to call the Chartist movement, born in a working protest against rising industry and that gave rise to democratic claims and to a serious social agitation in England between 1832 and 1848. This debate allows to determine the struggle of working classes against the upper class and causes the inequality of social classes. In fact industrial revolution gives birth to a class of powerful capitalist industrialists but also in a class of workers of more numerous industry. [...]