6HUM0400: the Politics of Parliamentary Reform: Lecture 3: Responses to the American Revolution
Structure of the lecture key themes and ideologies impact of the American war and revolution association movement successes of economical reform faltering of parliamentary reform movement
Object of the week: Robert Laurie, ‘Association Meeting at York’ (1780), British Museum Landed interest Manufacture Public Credit Public Virtue Liberty Commerce Hope Election
‘The Deplorable state of America, or, Sc---h Government’, 1765
‘The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught’ London Magazine, April 1774
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), and Common Sense (1776)
Rev Christopher Wyvill (1738–1822)
Westminster Association figures Charles James Fox (1749–1806) Major John Cartwright (1740–1824) Richard Price (1723–1791)
Major Cartwright, Take your Choice! (1776) ‘personality is the sole foundation of the right of being represented’; ‘property had in reality nothing to do in the case’ [of representation]
Resolutions of the Corporation of London, 31 January 1782 Black, The Association, p. 85 Resolved, that the unequal representation of the people, the corrupt state of parliament, and the perversion thereof, from its original institution, have been the principal causes of the unjust war with America, of the consequent dismemberment of the British Empire, and of every grievance of which we complain…
Gordon Riots, June 1780
James Sayers, ‘Carlo Khan’s Triumphal Entry into Leadenhall Street’, December 1783
Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Devonshire, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes’, April 1784
Object of the week: Robert Laurie, ‘Association Meeting at York’ (1780), British Museum Landed interest Manufacture Public Credit Public Virtue Liberty Commerce Hope Election