Scandinavia in the Age of Revolution

Bregnsbo, Michael; Winton, Patrik

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“…Bregnsbo identifies an increase in peasant farmer petitions from 2% to 7% of the total number of petitions between 1705 and 1795. 45 Claus Bjørn has argued that until 1760, the few petitions originating from the peasantry were a single person's request for financial help and similar individual issues. Bjørn identifies an increase in petitions from groups of peasants from 1760 onwards regarding general claims and wishes.…”

Section: Petitions In the Estate Dietsmentioning

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Speaking through Petitions: Peasant Farmers in the Nascent Democracy, Denmark 1830s

Nørgaard

2022

J Mod Eur Hist

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This article investigates the first generation of peasant farmers elected to modern representative assemblies in Denmark. I argue that the contributions of the first peasant farmer politicians are an important but overlooked part of the history of democratisation in Denmark. The peasant farmer members were uneducated and unable to speak in a way considered suitable for parliament. For that reason, they were deemed unfit for political participation by their contemporaries and have been similarly judged in most of the existing literature. The peasant farmer members were not as timidly passive as they have been described. Instead of speaking, they used petitions to gain a voice in parliament. The farmer members thus introduced petitioning as a form of political participation in parliamentary politics, a practice that remains central to popular politics today. The actions of the peasant farmer politicians challenged the existing boundaries of what was considered appropriate political practice and thereby expanded the repertoire of forms of political participation available to the uneducated majority of the population.

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Section: Petitions In the Estate Dietsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Speaking through Petitions: Peasant Farmers in the Nascent Democracy, Denmark 1830s

Nørgaard

2022

J Mod Eur Hist

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Scandinavia in the Age of Revolution

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Speaking through Petitions: Peasant Farmers in the Nascent Democracy, Denmark 1830s

Speaking through Petitions: Peasant Farmers in the Nascent Democracy, Denmark 1830s

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