Constitutional Society
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Timeline
April 1771
John Horne (later John Horne Tooke
) and others seceded from the Bill of Rights Society
to form the Constitutional Society
.
October 1790
June 1791
November 1791
The SheffieldConstitutional Society
, a working-class reform association, was formed.
April 1794
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.
December 1820
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...