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... Middle - class Reformers . 21 Early Democratic Theories 27 The Middle - class View of Reform . 33 CHAPTER II THE FURTHER TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY The Reform Bill of 1832 Its Effect on the Power of the Aristocracy The Responsibility of ...
... Middle - class Reformers . 21 Early Democratic Theories 27 The Middle - class View of Reform . 33 CHAPTER II THE FURTHER TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY The Reform Bill of 1832 Its Effect on the Power of the Aristocracy The Responsibility of ...
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... middle class ; another by the potwallopers , the poorest and humblest of the people . Here the seat might be presented to a promising youth of genius ; here it might be purchased by a lawyer , a doctor , or a wealthy colonist . And ...
... middle class ; another by the potwallopers , the poorest and humblest of the people . Here the seat might be presented to a promising youth of genius ; here it might be purchased by a lawyer , a doctor , or a wealthy colonist . And ...
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... . 5 Hansard , vol . vii . , p . 934. 6 Annual Register , 1831 , p . 245 . carried it through . No measure that has ever been THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY 21 The Criticism of the Aristocracy by the Middle-class Reformers.
... . 5 Hansard , vol . vii . , p . 934. 6 Annual Register , 1831 , p . 245 . carried it through . No measure that has ever been THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY 21 The Criticism of the Aristocracy by the Middle-class Reformers.
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... middle - class reformers that the House of Commons had once been a popular assembly . They knew that every freeholder , previous to the year 1430 , had been entitled to vote for the mem- bers of the shires ; this they interpreted as ...
... middle - class reformers that the House of Commons had once been a popular assembly . They knew that every freeholder , previous to the year 1430 , had been entitled to vote for the mem- bers of the shires ; this they interpreted as ...
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... middle class , and to ac- count for the fierceness and vigour of the agitation of 1832. But to hate an aristocracy is not the same thing as to love a democracy ; and it still remains for us to inquire whether this revolt against the ...
... middle class , and to ac- count for the fierceness and vigour of the agitation of 1832. But to hate an aristocracy is not the same thing as to love a democracy ; and it still remains for us to inquire whether this revolt against the ...
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