Society for Constitutional Information
- Society for Constitutional Information
Founded in 1780 by Major John Cartwright to promote parliamentary reform, the Society for Constitutional Information flourished until 1783, but thereafter made little headway. The organization actively promoted Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" and other radical publications, and under the leadership of John Horne Tooke collaborated with other reform societies, metropolitan and provincial, such as the London Corresponding Society, with which it met in 1794 to discuss a further national convention as well as producing a large number of pamphlets and periodicals. After the government repression and 1794 Treason Trials in October, in which the leaders were acquitted, the society ceased to meet.
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* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=39478 Introduction | British history online]
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*Radicalism (historical)
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