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Article: A united people? Leaders and followers in a chartist locality, 1838-1848.
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2004
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"The Charter must and will be the law of the land, if a united people
desire it." (Address of the Chartists of Ashton-under-Lyne, to their
Brethren in Scotland, Northern Star, 27 July 1839)
In the first half of the nineteenth century, radicals and later Chartists struggled to make the image of "a united people" a reality and to create a distinctive style of democratic politics and leadership. "We want," argued the National, "not leaders, but representatives. We want, not parliament men to chalk out their own course for their own especial benefit, but men to do our work, under our direction, men who can honestly represent the people's wishes." (1) In trying ...
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