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| | Fox, Charles James - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | Fox, Charles James 1749-1806, British statesman and orator, for many years the outstanding parliamentary proponent of liberal reform. |
 | | Fox then allied himself with his old enemy, Lord North, to insure Shelburne's defeat, and he became (1783) foreign secretary again, in a coalition with North. |
 | | He objected to the suppression of civil liberties in wartime and was the parliamentary spokesman of several reform movements, urging such measures as enlargement of the franchise, parliamentary reform, and political rights for Roman Catholics and dissenters. |
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