Practice question · Numerical answer
Approximately what percentage of the adult population in Britain could vote before the 1832 Reform Act?
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- A very small fraction.
- Well under five per cent.
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Why
Under five per cent, and it remained under a third of adult men after 1867, with no women at all until 1918. The figures are the answer to anyone who treats liberal and democratic as synonyms: these states had constitutions, rights and courts for a century before they had electorates worth the name.
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