Constitutional Association

The Scottish Society of the Friends of the People , a radical group, was established in Edinburgh, a month or so after the English equivalent.

The Constitutional Association (at the opposite end of the political spectrum from the various Constitutional Societies ) was formed in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819, with the aim of silencing...

Mary Anne Carlile , sister of Richard Carlile (who had published Thomas Paine ), was charged twice with blasphemous libel.

The reactionary Constitutional Association was dissolved.