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	Representation of the People Act 1884 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United Kingdom, The Representation of the People Act of 1884 (48 and 49 Vict.
		The act extended the 1867 concessions from the boroughs to the countryside.
		This was not to stop people acquiring multiple votes in different constituencies (plural voting was still permitted), but to restrict sub-division of one property to qualify multiple voters (so called fagot voters).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1884 (354 words)

	Representation of the People Act 1918 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1640
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1699
		The Representation of the People Act 1918 was an Act of Parliament passed to reform the electoral system in the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1918 (553 words)

	PARLIAMENT: The Quality & Nature of LEGAL Government
		The act of 1949 reduced the period to one year, though the provisions of the act were not used by the Labour House of Commons ' majority of 1949-51, since the Conservative majority in the House of Lords refrained from pushing its opposition so far that it had to be overridden.
		After the Septennial Act it became the practice to dissolve after six years, so as to hold a general election at a period convenient to the government; and on occasions there were earlier dissolutions, to enable the government in office to use the royal and "treasury" influence to strengthen itself.
		The householder was enfranchised in the borough in 1867 and in the county in 1884.
	www.worldfreeinternet.net /archive/arc17.htm (11028 words)

	[No title]
		VICTORIA: STATUTES (1884-1900) (A) Representation of the People Act (1884) An act to amend the law relating to the representation of the people of the united kingdom.
		In this act the expression "a household qualification" means, as respects England and Ireland, the qualification enacted by the third section of the Representation of the People Act, 1867....[1] Public General Statutes, XXI, 3 f.: 48 Victoria, c.
		The house of representatives shall be composed of members directly chosen by the people of the commonwealth, and the number of such members shall be, as nearly as practicable, twice the number of the senators.
	www.constitution.org /sech/sech_135.txt (2860 words)

	Benjamin Franklin - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He stood unappalled, gave pleasure to his friends and did honour to his country." 1 Franklin compared the position of the colonies to that of Scotland in the days before the union, and in the same year (1766) audaciously urged a similar union with the colonies before it was too late.
		Another bill (the Declaratory Act), however, was almost immediately passed by the king's party, asserting absolute supremacy of parliament over the colonies, and in the succeeding parliament, by the Townshend Acts of 1767, duties were imposed on paper, paints and glass imported by the colonists; a tax was imposed on tea also.
		Acting as American naval agent for the many successful privateers who harried the English Channel, and for whom he skilfully got every bit of assistance possible, open and covert, from the French government, he was continually called upon for funds in these ventures.
	www.1911ency.org /F/FR/FRANKLIN_BENJAMIN.htm (5219 words)

	GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. gov... - Online Information article about GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. gov...
		mass of the people, the outcome of special conditions and tendencies, is a result beyond the power of constitution-makers to attain.
		Kingdom it is well understood that the real sovereignty lies with the people (the electorate), and the House of Lords recognizes the principle that it must accept a measure when the popular will has been clearly expressed.
		In the United States the Senate (constituted on the system of equal representation of states) is the more important of the two Houses, and the only one whose control of the executive can be compared to that exercised by the British House of Commons.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GOVERNMENT_0_Fr_governement_mod.html (7418 words)

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		27 of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act, 1868, 31 and 32 Vict., ch.
		Under the Act of Union, 1840, these two provinces were reunited so as to constitute one province under the name of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Council was to be composed of such "persons" being not fewer than 20 as Her Majesty shall think fit.
		In the province of New Brunswick by the Provincial Act, 11 Vict., ch.
	www.chrc-ccdp.ca /fr/browseSubjects/edwardspc.asp (4880 words)

	[No title]
		For, although prior to the Redistribution Act of 1885, every great town in the United Kingdom, with the exception of London, was a parliamentary unit, yet the system of single-member constituencies made general by that Act is now regarded by many as another essential and permanent feature of the English parliamentary system.
		These defects all spring from the same root cause--that the representation of any constituency is awarded to the majority of the electors in that constituency irrespective of the size of the majority; that the votes of the minority count for nothing.
		The violence of the change in representation is attributed to the character of the electors instead of to the evil effects of a defective electoral method.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext06/8prep10.txt (14405 words)

	THE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS: 1867 - Texas State Library
		An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States," passed on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the Act supplementary thereto, passed on the twenty-third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven [Passed over President Johnson's veto July 19, 1867].
		And be it further enacted, That section four of said last-named act shall be construed to authorize the commanding general named therein, whenever he shall deem it needful, to remove any member of a board of registration and to appoint another in his stead, and to fill any vacancy in such board.
		And be it further enacted, That all the provisions of this act and of the acts to which this is supplementary shall be construed liberally, to the end that all intents thereof may be fully and perfectly carried out.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /ref/abouttx/secession/reconstruction.html (556 words)

	Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The news of the British North America Act, 1867, was nervously received in Washington, DC.
		Russia still used the Julian Calendar in 1867, and the world had not yet been divided into standard time zones; thus, there was no international date line, and the day began in the morning instead of starting at midnight.
		This includes a natural increase since the last census of 36,590 people derived from its 53,132 births of which 16,542 deaths is subtracted from, and an increase due to net migration of 1,181 people into the state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alaska (4706 words)

	The number of Scottish seats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The 1944 Act was repealed by House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 (c 66) which made identical provision in Schedule 2, rule 1.
		Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832 (c 65).
		Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1867 (c 48).
	www.alba.org.uk /nextge/seats.html (410 words)

	how ghostly were the 1920s in Japan?
		Moreover, it has been suggested that the concept of dimensionality in optical representation has not always been the same and that the advent of the photomontage is exemplary of one of the changes in optical dimensionality.
		[15] The people began to see the emperor as their absolute origin, gradually regarding themselves as his mythically projected offspring, and accordingly came to worship him as the archetype of their ancestors as some continue to do so even today.
		First, on the level of linguistic representation, Kawabata was seeking a new discursive strategy: he took recourse to both a loosened tie between the signifiers and the signifieds, and the tension between the latter and their supposed referent.
	www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/5-supp/text/ishii.html (11467 words)

	Representation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Proposals for guaranteed representation in the House of Commons and the Senate were put forward during constitutional discussions prior to 1982 and again during the “aboriginal round” of meetings in the mid-1980s.
		However, whatever rights to representation might be contained in Section 35, these would be severely constrained by Section 3 (Voting Rights), and Part V (amendment process) as well as provisions of the constitution creating federal institutions and guaranteeing representation based on provincial boundaries.
		Representation would be based on nation or peoples – each nation or people would have its own representative with larger ones having additional representatives.
	www.sen.parl.gc.ca /nsibbeston/new_page_1.htm (4999 words)

	Winchcombe electoral registers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		However, the Reform Act which was passed on 4 June of that year increased the number of voters, nationally, who were mainly middle class, from around 478,000 to 814,000, by enfranchising £10 copyholders and long-leaseholders and £50 short-leaseholders and tenants in the counties.
		The Municipal Corporations Act of 1935 extended the right to vote in local borough elections to men who had lived in a property whether as owner or tenant in the relevant parish for 30 months, or paid the poor rate or had lived within seven miles of the borough for the previous six months.
		The effect of the Representation of the People Act of 1867 was to increase the number of voters from about 1,359,000 to 2,456,000 mainly drawing in voters from the urban working class.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /winchcombe/elecreg.html (377 words)

	History Of The Mask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Particularly among Oceanic peoples, American Indians, and Negro tribes of Africa, certain times of the year are set aside to honour spirits or ancestors.
		Among nonliterate peoples who cannot record their own histories, masked rituals act as an important link between past and present, giving a sense of historic continuity that strengthens their social bond.
		With wax or liquid plaster of paris, a negative cast of the human face could be produced that in turn acted as a mold for the positive image, frequently cast in bronze.
	www.anymask.com /historyofmask.html (6323 words)

	1885 Redistribution Act
		The Act allowed Britain to advance a step further in gaining equal representation before this Act seats were unfairly distributed leading to harsh and unfair representation.
		Each of these Acts allowed Britain to bridge the gap on reaching democracy, the Secret ballot Act minimised bribery and corruption which infiltrated the voting system they however did not wipe the system totally clean until the 1883 Corrupt Practices Act made it presence felt and eradicated both bribery and corruption for the system.
		As a whole these Acts before 1900s edged Britain further to democracy but they did not deliver enormous changes, they of course were a vast improvement to the system to the way it stood before 1832, they were to be the last changes to the electoral system for some 30 years.
	www.revision-notes.co.uk /revision/820.html (277 words)

	New York State Senate >> About the Senate >> Historical Timeline
		Intolerable Acts) which are intended to punish colonists for rebelling against previous acts and limit the colonists' freedoms such as self-rule.
		Alarmed by the closing of Boston's harbor by the British, the people in New York organize the Committee of Fifty-One which meets in New York City and moderately favors resistance.
		The First Continental Congress asserts that colonists' have basic rights by formally refusing to obey the Intolerable Acts, recommends the need for local militia, and calls for local committees to enforce an agreement called the "Continental Association," whereby colonies refuse to trade with England until the restoration of their basic rights.
	www.senate.state.ny.us /sws/aboutsenate/timeline.html (3416 words)

	The New Yorker: From the Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The people of southern Louisiana have often been compared unfavorably with farmers of the pre-Aswan Nile, who lived on high ground, farmed low ground, and permitted floods to come and go according to the rhythms of nature.
		If people were to farm successfully in the rich loams of the natural levees—or anywhere nearby—they could not allow the Mississippi to continue in its natural state.
		The people of Acadiana say that the swamp would be the safest place in which to seek refuge in a major flood, because the swamp is higher than the land outside the levees.
	www.newyorker.com /archive/content/?050912fr_archive01 (18563 words)

	Buckingham - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At the time of the Domesday survey there were twenty-six burgesses in Buckingham, which, together with the hamlet of Bourton, was assessed at one hide.
		In 1529 and from 1 545 onwards Buckingham returned two members to parliament, until deprived by the Representation of the People Act of 1867 of one member, and by the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885 of the other.
		Early mentions occur of markets and fairs, and from 1522, when Henry VIII, granted to Sir Henry Marney the borough of Buckingham with a Saturday market and two annual fairs, grants of fairs by various sovereigns were numerous.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Buckingham (438 words)

	Board of agriculture for Ireland
		The Acts specified in the Second Schedule to this Act are, as from the date of the establishment of the Board of Agriculture, hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned.
		A clause under the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act of 1893 is mandatory as to the appointment by the Lord Lieutenant of a Chief Agricultural Analyst for Ireland, with duties similar to those of the Official Analyst under the Board of Agriculture In England.
		People dwelling inland either depend almost altogether on their farms, or else they regularly migrate for some months of the year in search of employment in England and Scotland, or even America in rare instances.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /other/abl/etext/irish/board/board.html (18305 words)

	History of DEMOCRACY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Britain the successive stages are four measures, each known as a Representation of the People Act.
		This is done away with in the act of 1918 which makes proof of residence the only qualification.
		The Representation of the People Act (passed nine months before the end of the war, in February 1918) gives the vote to women over the age of thirty.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2648&HistoryID=ac42 (1840 words)

	Lichfield: Parliamentary representation \| British History Online
		Citation: 'Lichfield: Parliamentary representation', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 14: Lichfield (1990), pp.
		10) The electorate was increased to 861 by the 1832 Reform Act and to 1,320 by the 1867 Reform Act.
		Representation of the People Act, 1867, 30 and 31 Vic.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=42347 (2173 words)

	Thaddeus Stevens
		In his speech of the 18th of December 1865 he asserted that rebellion had ipso facto blotted out of being all states in the South, that that section was then a conquered province, and that its government was in the hands of Congress, which could do with it as it wished.
		He introduced from the joint committee what became, with changed clause as to the basis of representation, the Fourteenth Amendment, and also the Reconstruction Act of the 6th of February 1867.
		He led Congress in the struggle with the president, and after the president's removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton he reported the impeachment resolution to the house and was chairman of the committee appointed to draft the articles of impeachment.
	www.nndb.com /people/112/000097818 (764 words)

	William IV & Victoria (Part A)
		WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the laws relating to the representation of the people in England and Wales:
		This act shall be cited for all purposes as “The Representation of the People Act, 1867.”
		This act shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland, nor in any wise affect the election of members to serve in parliament for the universities of Oxford or Cambridge.
	home.freeuk.net /don-aitken/ast/w4.html (1269 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Second Reform Act - Representation of the People Act
		In the 1860s, the champions of reform were William Gladstone and his Liberals, but when he attempted to pass a bill through parliament in 1866 it was savaged by Conservatives and Liberals alike as too modest and ineffectual.
		The Act almost doubled the electorate, adding nearly one million new voters and extending the franchise to the urban artisan by reducing the voting qualification to £10 householders, those paying £10 rent in towns, and £12 householders in the counties.
		By taking one member from existing borough constituencies with a population of less than 10,000, 45 new seats were created, increasing the representation of towns and cities.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=995 (330 words)

	Florence Butegwa
		A notable historical example (unfortunately still replicated in many countries) was the English Representation of the People Act (1867), granting men the right to vote.
		On the basis of the rule of interpretation that words importing the male gender shall be taken to include females, a woman, Mary Abbott, requested that her name be included on the electoral registrar.
		The safeguarding of people's rights is, and will continue to be, both conceptually and practically, an unfinished task, a permanent challenge to take action to advance the humanization of the world community.
	www.cwgl.rutgers.edu /globalcenter/butegwa.html (4351 words)

	PinkMonkey.com World History Study Guide - 9.7 Representation of the People Act, 1867
		It was signed by thousands of people all over the country who demanded that the Charter should be accepted by the government.
		As a result of the growing strength of the ’Chartist Movement’, the Representation of the People Act, was passed in 1867.
		By this Act, a number of small boroughs were wholly or partially disfranchised.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /studyguides/subjects/worldhis/chap9/w0909701.asp (343 words)

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