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Chartism: everything you wanted to know

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The Role of Key Leaders in the Charities Movement

There are six points, there are six demands. How did they go about mobilising so many people? Turning as you've already acknowledged a series of localized protests into an enormous nationwide movement. The need for that had kind of been heightened by the mass movement of workers into cities is that right? Precisely yes and then the last one which causes the one we have never achieved is the annual parliament. They felt that it would be a good check on government if they had to be voted in every 12 months I think what it speaks to is the complete lack of trust that was pledged into the parliamentary system.

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