Constitutional Society

John Horne (later John Horne Tooke ) and others seceded from the Bill of Rights Society to form the Constitutional Society .

Thomas Walker founded the ManchesterConstitutional Society .

Joseph Priestley founded a Constitutional Society in Birmingham.

The SheffieldConstitutional Society , a working-class reform association, was formed.

Thomas Walker , leading Manchester cotton merchant and founder of the Constitutional Society there, was acquitted on a trumped-up charge of conspiring to subvert the constitution.

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...