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- noun finance The practices and methodologies of
chartists .
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Examples
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This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs, and seas, and rains proclaimed, that intellect and personal force should make the law; that industry and administrative talent should administer; that work should wear the crown.
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The English dislike the American structure of society, whilst yet trade, mills, public education, and chartism are doing what they can to create in England the same social condition.
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'We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority, and violated every code, human and divine, abroad, and fostered chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written _Jane Eyre_.'
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891
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Hence the seeds of chartism, already sown, were quickened in 1832; but socialism was not yet a force in politics, and it was still hoped that, under the new electoral system, the sufferings of the poor might be mostly remedied by act of parliament.
The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867
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This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs, and seas, and rains proclaimed, -- that intellect and personal force should make the law; that industry and administrative talent should administer; that work should wear the crown.
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I confess I had a certain weakness for Prytania, until she embraced chartism.
Wired Campus 2010
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Yoani Sanchez: Mail Boxes Plus Ballot Boxes: Add State Inertia and It Equals Nothing 2009
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Yoani Sanchez: Mail Boxes Plus Ballot Boxes: Add State Inertia and It Equals Nothing 2009
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