The Harmful Effects Of The 1832 Reform

Firstly the House of Lords reform where the voting rights of most hereditary peers was abolished. This makes the UK less undemocratic rather then more democratic. This is due to the fact that the House of Lords as a whole is an unelected chamber and therefore undemocratic, however by removing the voting rights of some

MP’s were unpaid for most of the nineteenth century and had to own land, although the property qualification ended in the 1850’s but only wealthy upper class men could be MP’s. The working class could not afford to give up their job to be a politician and that meant that their views and needs were poorly represented compared to the ones of the wealthy. This is clearly not democratic and wasn’t changed until 1911 when MP’s began to be paid allowing the right to become and MP to everyone

As a country, America has gone through many political changes. Leaders have come and gone, all of them having different objectives and plans for the future. One period of time in which leaders sought change was 1865 which was the time period known as Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a time period of many different leaders, different goals and different accomplishments. Many debate whether Reconstruction was a success or failure. Success is an event which accomplishes its intended purpose, which Reconstruction did, but during this process of accomplishment, evil came about. There was many good things that came from the Reconstruction era which leads me to believe that it was a success, these accomplishments were; Reunification of the Union , more laws came about along with the protection of African Americans and the Enforcement acts, the Freedmen's Bureau was created along with an education system, and the Compromise of 1877.

The first election in British America was in 1607 by the commanders of the 105 colonist using a ballot system. There was suspicion of concealing a mutiny and since that time more individuals were asked asked to vote who they thought had a stake in the government. Individuals who were asked to participate in the voting were property owners.

The antebellum temperance reform was not motivated by religious moralism, however, religion did play a part in spreading it. Originally, drinking liquor was a very common thing, “In shipbuilding, workers enjoyed ceremonial provisions of strong drink in addition to their daily rations. At the completion of each major stage of construction they joined with shipowners and masters to toast their work’s progress.” (Rumbarger 268) As a result of how common it became, businesses with employees would constantly be losing a good amount of money to liquor overall for their workers and not receiving the best quality of work from those drunken workers. This can be seen as a republican virtues which is the idea of giving to your community by sacrificing

"Describe the steps taken between 1832 and 1918 to extend the suffrage in England. What group and movements contributed to the extension of the vote?" Several groups, movements and reform bills passed between 1832 and 1918 extended the suffrage in England. The process took many years and the voting rights were first given to the wealthier and more distinguished men, then later to the less wealthy men, and finally to women. The major reform bills that extended the suffrage in England were the Reform Bill of 1832, 1867, and 1884, and the Qualification of Women Act in 1917. (Mazour, Peoples) The suffrage movement began in 1832 when the Reform Bill of 1832 was passed by parliment. The Prime Minister since 1830, Earl Grey, authored the Bill and

Despite the outcome I fully believe that the election of 1828 did in fact, create a democratic revolt of the people because of the social and political backlash that the election created. The election of Andrew Jackson as President in 1828 marked the beginning of an era known as Jacksonian Democracy or the Age of the Common Man. The changes in politics during Jackson's presidency provided various social and economic changes.

This shifted some of the political power of Britain from the Crown to the Parliament. This was a good thing because it would later give the Americans an idea about how to create checks and balances in power. On the other hand, it was a bad thing because it made it possible for the Parliament to over-exercise their power later on with the colonies, pushing the colonists to fight for their freedom.

In this essay I will assess the outcomes of Additional Member system, First Past the Post system and the Closed Party List system. The F-P-T-P system is used to elect the members of House of Commons and local government in England and Wales. Voters select candidates, and do so by marking his or her name with an ‘X’ on the ballot paper. This reflects the principle of ‘one person, one vote’. The Additional Members system is used in Scottish parliament, Welsh assembly, and Northern Ireland Assembly and Greater London assembly. It is a mixed system made up of F-P-T-P and party-list elements. The Regional party list (or the closed party list) is used to elect the

The impulse of reform that provided this era with its foundation was a political one. Before the early nineteenth century, American males could not vote unless

in the existing system, the Act started to make Britain more democratic. It introduced more just

During the 1800’s, the United States had gone through many social, political, and religious changes, by which was called the Antebellum Reform Period. The social reforms that had been made during the Antebellum Reform period was the changes to education and prison treatment. Also during the Antebellum period, there were political changes in the United States because of women’s suffrage movement and abolitionism. Finally during the Antebellum period, there were changes in religious morals because of Second Great Awakening. In the Antebellum period, reforms such as education, prison treatment, women’s rights, slavery, and people’s morals were made because of many movements and historical figures.

In the early nineteenth century time period there was a major reform in the United States. The Antebellum Reform is the period before the civil war and after the war of 1812. Preachers and believers saw society and the environment of the country capable of improving conditions. They saw that the society was able to perfect and strive to be more like God. The Second Great Awakening played a large role in the development of the reformist impulse. The Awakening pressured the concept of personal responsibility of a person to the sins of neighbors. Seeking perfection and living righteousness, also redeeming sinners was widely spread. The reform was encountered with a network of church affiliated reform organizations. The reform impulse was not only major in the United States, but Europeans also had reform efforts. There were different types of reform movements during the nineteenth century in the United States. Overtime groups and were separated. There were many women who worked in the reform movement. However, women had a great impact in

The Acts impact on political power in Aristocracy was that it increased the prestige and power of the House of Commons relative to the House of Lords, especially as it was more representative to the people. However aristocracy still retained its overall domination of politics even if its extent had been decreased somewhat. Also with removing many hard-to-control urban areas from county constituencies the domination of aristocracy was further cemented resulting in the system being very undemocratic. For the middle class as a result of the Act, more men became MP’s for new urban and industrial constituencies and it made the urban middle classes more politically powerful and influential than ever before.

Social policies the fundamental principles in which a society is based. Created to tackle poverty, protect society addressing issues such as social welfare, justice and individual wellbeing. By 1834 the government were under fierce criticism due to rising and mounting costs of looking after the poor, it became clear a change was needed to fix problems in society. The government brought in an amendment act titled the Poor Law (1834) which was designed to reduce the cost of looking after the poor, passed by parliament this new law meant anyone seeking relief from poverty had to now enter a workhouse (BBC-Bitesize, 2017). In the early 1800's the population was rapidly rising, an industrial revolution, the development of towns and the first experience of modern unemployment caused problems within British society (Spicker, 2017). There was suspicion from middle and upper-class taxpayers that their money encouraged the poor to be lazy and avoid work, Squandering money on alcohol and tobacco. In addition, this encouraged the poor to have more children in which they could not afford to support causing resentment and dividing society (Murray, 2013).