Chartism

The Democratic Idiom: Languages of Democracy in the Chartist Movement

“…80 Not only did this constitution prioritise the land plan, it also placed more power in the hands of a salaried executive, which was in theory responsible to the annual convention but which in reality could exercise far more independent control. Member participation was seriously compromised by a change that was vigorously contested by Lovett who regarded it as further proof of the dictatorial influence of O"Connor -"the blight of Democracy from the first moment he opened his mouth as its professed advocate" -and his organ the Northern Star, which had sought to undermine "every thing good in Democracy, or to place Toryism once more in the ascendant."…”

Death, the environment, and theology

“…43 Chase provides explicitly Christian practices for peer group work. 44 In the peer groups and other small groups, people shape each other; there is education and interaction. In addition, it would be wise to select people to be specially educated in these themes, so that they can spread their insights.…”

Daniel O’Connell, Repeal, and Chartism in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

“…The Chartists hoped, therefore, to envelop the Repeal campaign, hence their repeated overtures to the Repealers in the early 1840s. 93 But such a strategy posed a threat to the independence of the Repeal movement, and thus to O'Connell's power, a reality he had appreciated as early as September 1838. 94 Fourth, andfar more dangerously to the Chartistsas a means to re-build a popular, cross-class alliance of moderate reformers in Britain, preferably under O'Connell's own leadership, which would accept "instalments" such as household suffrage.…”