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Why do you think the Chartists demanded (a) a secret ballot (b) salaries for members of parliament?
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What did the chartists believe?
The Chartists wanted to change and reform the electoral system. They wanted political rights for the working class because voting rights were only given to people of the middle classes that owned property.
What did chartists do?
Chartists were people who supported the 1838 'People's Charter'. The Charter called for Universal Male Suffrage, Parliamentary voting by Secret Ballot, Salaried Members of Parliament (so that a political career was open to men with no private income) - and a host of other ideas, most of which we now take for granted. The political reforms of the later Nineteenth Century nearly all originated in Chartism.
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