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  • Chartism was a democratic reform movement that emerged in Britain in the second third of the nineteenth century. The Chartists (those who advocated the Chartist program of reform) derive their name from the People's Charter, a document produced on May 8, 1838. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Chartism]

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