Representation of the People BillThis article studies the preparation, passage, and consequences of the Representation of the People Act 1918. Commonly known as the fourth and last of the 'Reform Acts' starting in 1832, that transformed the politics of Great Britain into a parliamentary democracy,...
The monetary effect of the Stamp Act was relatively minimal, but it happened to come in a line of other internal taxes placed on everyday goods. This caused the colonists to take greater notice. The Stamp Act represented a massive Crown overreach of past agreements with the colonists. The ...
of the nation produced the Reform Bill of 1832, and a further recognition that a still larger number of the governed must be associated with the Government, produced the further changes of 1867 and of 1884, embodied in measures significantly called Acts for the Representation of the People. The...
Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Article History Witness the original documents of the Great Reform Act 1832, the Second Reform Act of 1867, the Third Reform Act of 1884, the Representation of the People Act 1918, and the 1928 Equal Franchise Act, in the ...
The Reform Act of 1832, which is generally viewed as a historic threshold in the development of parliamentary democracy in Britain, extended the suffrage to about 7 percent of the adult population (see Reform Bill). It would require further acts of Parliament in 1867, 1884, and 1918 to ...