Chartists
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Working-class movement for the People's Charter and political reform.
Among the Chartists might be found some devotees of socialistic ideals, but Chartism was not socialism.
Chartism had expired on the 10th April 1848, and the working classes had ceased to press for democratic innovations.
It was demanded by the Chartists, who between 1830 and 1848 seemed destined to carry parliamentary reform to its logical conclusion.