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| | The English Reform Movement |
 | | The key to the success of the English Reform movement was the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, which, by greatly expanding the suffrage, compelled the government to respond to the political pressures generated by industrialization. | | | The controversy involving the Corn Laws is particularly suggestive of the political changes that were taking place during the years of the English Reform Movement. | | | The Chartist political movement broke new ground with a number of liberal proposals, which, though they were considered radical during the 1830,s, would, decades later, be accepted by the major political parties and be passed into law. |
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http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/westn/reform.html
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| | Representative Phil English (PA03) - English Introduces Bill to Recognize Former Rep. |
| | Bill Clinger became a major leader in the House during the course of his career and was a strong voice in government reform at the time he retired, English said. | | | English served in the U.S. House of Representatives with Clinger during his freshman term in Congress. | | | English announced the measure during an address to the Warren Rotary Club at the Holiday Inn in Warren, Pa. |
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| | New Zealand National Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The coalition went into the 1935 election under the title of the "National Political Federation", a name adopted to indicate that the new group would serve New Zealanders from all backgrounds (in contrast to the previous situation, where United served city-dwellers and Reform served farmers). | | | The party formed as the result of a merger between the United Party (known as the Liberal Party until 1927) and the Reform Party. | | | George Forbes, Prime Minister from 1930 until 1935 and United Party Leader, opened the conference: he served as Leader of the Opposition and of the New Zealand National Party until October 1936, when the party elected Adam Hamilton as Leader. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party
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| | The English law has not yet been codified, and it was characteristic of the Benthamite school to exaggerate the facility of that process, in their hatred of 'judge-made law' they assumed too easily that all things would be arranged into convenient pigeon-holes as soon as 'Judge and Co.' were abolished. | | | He says in the preface to his first speech that 'the age of law reform and the age of Jeremy Bentham' were the same thing, and declares Bentham to be the 'first legal philosopher' who had appeared in the world. | | | She resolved to bring up James, her eldest son, to be a gentleman, which practically meant to be a minister. |
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| | ENGLISH MONARCHS |
| | It was during his reign that Sir Robert Walpole became the first ‘prime’ minister filling the role at council meetings that George, with his poor grasp of English could not. | | | When Edward died childless, the English crown was offered to Harold Godwinson, although it had previously been promised to William. | | | But the English were never able to hold on to their gains, particularly after the arrival of the Black Death (bubonic plague), which killed at least a third of the population. |
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| | Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition |
| | The reason for this is simple; while the County focused its energies on having a smooth-running election, the MDERC focused its efforts on bringing about meaningful reforms that would benefit and empower the voters of Miami-Dade County, rich or poor, black or white, immigrant or native born, English, Spanish or Creole speaking. | | | Who : Lida Rodriguez-Taseff, Chair, Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, Dan McCrea, Government Relations Chair, Martha R. Mahoney, Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law and Howard Simon, Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida, a member of the coalition. | | | Martha Mahoney, of the University of Miami School of Law, testified before the Elections Subcommittee of the Miami-Dade County Commission, to express their concerns about the possibility of what MDERC sees as serious systemic problems with the DREs purchased by Miami-Dade County. |
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| | Monarchy Links |
| | The Centre for Citizenship - Exploring issues of republican democracy in Britain and the need for reform. | | | What I did was fail to comply with the law. | | | -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Monarchy "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. |
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| | Representative Phil English (PA03) - English: Medicare Bill Best Option for Seniors |
| | This monumental Medicare reform bill strengthens the program for our seniors and offers a truly unprecedented prescription drug benefit for every senior, English said. | | | English is not alone in his support of the Medicare bill. | | | Two of Englishs proposals are included in the rural package and would bring $46.9 million to hospitals in Pennsylvanias 3rd Congressional District over ten years. |
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| | Reform Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This conference led to the formation of the Reform Party in 1987. | | | It should be noted that while the Reform Party had similar views to APEC's on official bilingualism and the role of Quebec in Confederation, the reasons for the Heritage Front's endorsement were less direct. | | | In the early 1990s, the party was controversially endorsed by extremist groups such as the Heritage Front and the Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada (APEC). |
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| | Reform Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As the party's first MP, she became Reform's deputy leader, a position she held for the remainder of the party's history. | | | Reform was still a Western protest party, but it finished second in the popular vote and won 52 seats. | | | While the Reform Party had similar views to APEC's on official bilingualism and the role of Quebec in the confederation, the reasons for the racist Heritage Front's endorsement were less direct. |
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| | Elections and Electoral Systems by Country |
| | National Electoral Committee has information in English on the Parliamentary Elections of 1995 and 1999, and the local elections of 1996, plus an overview of elections from 1989-1996. | | | Adam Carr's Electoral Archive has complete (ie, seat by seat) federal elections statistics from 1901 (federation) to the present, and statistics for all Australian state elections since 1990. | | | Electoral College results since 1789 and an explanation of Electoral College procedure |
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| | Henry VIII and the English Church |
| | Act of Supremacy: in November 1534 Parliament confirms that Henry VIII is "Supreme Head of the Church of England," nullifying the Pope's authority in England and giving the king the right to reform the church and to judge heresies. | | | Act of Succession: in 1534 this Act of Parliament declares Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon null and void from the beginning and declares Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn to be lawful. | | | Multiple Acts of Parliament declaring that anyone saying that the king is "a heretic, schismatic, tyrant, infidel, or usurper of the crown" is guilty of high treason." Requires subjects to affirmatively condone Act of Supremecy. |
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| | Squire Law Library, Cambridge University |
| | Electoral Reform Society Your Voice, Your Choice: Revitalising the English Regions: The Electoral Reform Society's response to the Regional Government White Paper, August 2002 | | | Electoral Reform Society: Electing the Speaker of the House of Commons Parliamentary Briefing, March 2001 | | | Electoral Reform Society Electing the Mayor and the London Assembly, ERS briefing paper, May 1999 |
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| | Shropshire [Definition] |
| | Brown Clee Hill The Brown Clee Hill is a hill in the rural English county of Shropshire. | | | It was created in the local government reform of 1974, and originally had Montgomery and Radnor and Brecknock as districts under it. | | | The ceremonial county of Shropshire is now split up into the administrative county of Shropshire and the unitary authorityA unitary authority is a term used in a two-tier local government system to describe a unit of local government that operates as a single tier. |
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| | Lecture 20: The French Revolution and the Socialist Tradition: English Democratic Socialists (2) |
| | And with the appearance of the democratic radicals side by side with the socialists we encounter one of the strange dichotomies of the entire socialist tradition -- on the one hand, reform, and on the other, revolution (for a general account of the French Revolution in English History, see Lecture 14). | | | This was to be accomplished, Bentham argued, by gradual reform and not violent revolution. | | | The fact that the early French communists and the English democratic radicals exist at the same point in time illustrates some of the foundations of the 19th century European socialist tradition. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: England (Since the Reformation) |
| | The instrument by which that consummation was effected was the "Act concerning the King's Highness to be the Supreme Head of the Church of England, and to have authority to reform and redress all errors, heresies and abuses in the same". | | | Moreover, stricter conceptions of their duty in respect of heretical worship were gaining ground among English Catholics, partly on account of the decision of a congregation appointed by the Council of Trent, that attendance at it was "grievously sinful", inasmuch as it was "the offspring of schism, the badge of hatred of the Church". | | | The closing of the English Catholic colleges in France was, however, to some extent compensated by the influx of clergy from that country. |
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| | Reform Party: Information From Answers.com |
| | The Reform movement, sometimes referred to as the Reform Party, began in the 1830s as the movement in the English speaking parts of British North America ( Canada). | | | Reform party, in the United States, political party founded in 1995 by H. Ross Perot as an alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties. | | | The Reformers worked with the parti rouge to form government at various points in the 1840s.They eventually succeded in obtainining a democratically accountable executive and the first government under responsible government came to power in 1848. |
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| | The Reform of 1832 established the supremacy of the Commons within the English constitutional system. | | | As a result of the Reform, the number of eligible voters increased by approximately fifty percent. | | | Even Robert Peel, the great Tory leader, "saw the work of a Tory as the implementation of 'judicious reforms' and the refusal to defend abuses merely because they were old" (Briggs, Age of Improvement, 218). |
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| | Elections and Electoral Systems by Country |
| | National Electoral Committee has information in English on the Parliamentary Elections of 1995 and 1999, and the local elections of 1996, plus an overview of elections from 1989-1996. | | | Adam Carr's Electoral Archive has complete (ie, seat by seat) federal elections statistics from 1901 (federation) to the present, and statistics for all Australian state elections since 1990. | | | The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented. |
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| | Introduction to Japan's Political Parties |
| | This was passed with the support of some LDP members who favored reform, resulting in dissolution of the House of Representatives and a general election. | | | The Social Democratic Party (called in English the Japan Socialist Party until February 1991 and then the Social Democratic Party of Japan until January 1996) was originally formed in November 1945 through the merger of various prewar proletarian parties. | | | Although the party is jointly run by Hatoyama and Kan, Hatoyama is in practice serve as party head and Kan as secretary general, according to party members. |
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| | H-Net Review: Martin Hewitt on Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 |
| | For example, there is a long history of constructing the Irish as sub-normal, and this had an enduring impact on the possibilities for English-Irish co-operation during the Chartist period, and thereafter, with one strand of popular politics being dominated by the kind of sectarianism which fuelled the Murphy riots. | | | Her account of the campaigns around the run-up to the reform act emphasises the very different traditions and aspirations which different localities brought to what scarcely became a "national" movement in any meaningful sense. | | | Hence, McClelland argues, the importance of Bright in the reform agitation was not merely his rhetorical style, but the way in which his platform performances linked the claim to enfranchisement with questions of working-class taxation and consumption. |
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| | The Democratic Party |
| | Not one of the 21 ministers nominated by hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is known to favor democratic reform in Iran. | | | Democrats need to focus more on the issues that benefit most Americans (and that are compatible with Progressive ideology) and that are clearly divisive and difficult to dismiss for Republicans. | | | The salary of Veon, the second-ranking Democrat in the state House, rose by 34 percent to $124,000. |
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| | DR Nyheder Online - English - Social Democrats dismiss reform |
| | The Social Democrats’ reform spokesman, Ole Stavad, dismissed the reform as “a lottery” and “a mess” and added that most of its content will be changed with the next elections. | | | After the opposition parties backed out of negotiations last week, the government decided to go ahead with talks solely with the Danish Peoples’ Party. | | | After the summer recess, the Social Democrats and Social Liberals will come with a long list of what they want to change if they win the next general elections. |
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| | LISA PLUMMER CRAFTON is Associate Professor of English at the State University of West Georgia. | | | In the struggle for democratic reform, and in its ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, the French Revolution represented a broad humanistic spirit that swept across Europe at the close of the 18th century. | | | -- "Great Burke," Thomas Carlyle, and the French Revolution by Lowell T. Frye |
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| | Rethinking the Age of Reform - Cambridge University Press |
| | Reform in English public life: the fortunes of a word Joanna Innes; 3. | | | This book takes a fresh look at the age of reform, from 1780 when reform became a common object of aspiration, to the 1830s - the era of the Reform Ministry and of the Great Reform Act of 1832 - and beyond, when such aspirations were realised more frequently. | | | Parliament, the state, and old corruption: conceptualising reform, c. |
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| | Even Robert Peel, the great Tory leader, "saw the work of a Tory as the implementation of 'judicious reforms' and the refusal to defend abuses merely because they were old" (Briggs, Age of Improvement, 218). | | | As a result of the Reform, the number of eligible voters increased by approximately fifty percent. | | | Suffrage was extended further in the Second Great Reform of 1867. |
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| | Pre-Confederation history of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The official language of the province became English and French was explicitly banned in the parliament and in the courts. | | | It took the administration of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin, who had remained moderate reformers during the Rebellions, to undo this discrimination. | | | Canada, largely influenced by American and French republicanism. |
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