Reform Act of 1867

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"The Reform Act of 1867, which sharply reduced the property qualification for eligibility to vote in British parliamentary elections, was one of the major steps which, in the course of the nineteenth century, led Britain from a governmental system based on landed privilege to one approaching mass democracy. At a step, this Reform Act increased the number of electors in British elections by about fifty percent (Feuchtwanger, 1985, p. 2). While its short.term effects proved to be somewhat limited, it also represented a major step in the "disenfranchisement" of the Monarch as an effective power in the British government. Finally, the Reform Act of 1867 is notable as being one of the historic high.water marks of "Tory reform" .. that is, reform tending in a liberal, democratizing direction, but introduced and carried through by the conservative party .. in this case, by the ..."

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