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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Reform Acts or Reform Bills, in British history, name given to three major measures that liberalized representation in Parliament in the 19th cent. Representation of the counties and boroughs in the House of Commons had not, except for the effects of parliamentary union with Scotland (1707) and Ireland (1800), been materially altered since the 17th cent. The system was very irregular and greatly restricted the franchise; it failed to take into account the great shifts of population and the growth of new social classes that attended the Industrial Revolution . "Pocket boroughs," ... Read more

Reform Acts
A Dictionary of World History Reform Acts A series of legislative measures ... 19th-and 20th-century Britain. The Reform Act of 1832 eliminated many ... hitherto been unrepresented. The Reform Act of 1867 doubled the size ... years to be enfranchised: the Reform Act of 1884 increased the electorate ... Read more

SPELLING REFORM
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language SPELLING REFORM The planned alteration of the established ... learning and using that system. Spelling reform does not usually include such changes ... systems of non-alphabetic signs (as with the reform of Chinese characters begun in the People ... Read more

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