Reform Act of 1832
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England (English)
The name of one man, it is true, can never adequately summarise a whole school of thought, but from 1825 onwards the teaching of Bentham exercised so potent an influence that to him is fairly ascribed that thorough-going though gradual amendment of the law of England which was one of the main results of the Reform Act.
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England (English)
In 1832, it may be said, passionate enthusiasm for parliamentary reform and all the innovations to which it gave birth, displaced, as it were, in a moment the obstinate toryism which for nearly half a century had been the accepted creed, if not of the whole nation, yet assuredly of the governing classes;
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The parliamentary reform legislation of 1832 that reshaped the electoral system.
On the passing of the Reform Act, at any rate, the political movement of the day was under the guidance of leaders who, by whatever party name they were known, were in essence individualists and utilitarians.
From 1832 onwards the supremacy of individualism among the classes then capable of influencing legislation was for many years incontestable and patent.
With the passing of the Reform Act began the reign of liberalism, and the utilitarianism of common sense acquired, in appearance at least, despotic power, but this appearance was to a certain extent delusive.