버밍엄 정치연합의 결성과 활동

Abstract

This thesis aims to examine extra-parliamentary reform movement with examination of the studies. Two points derived from examined above can be summed up as follows.First, Birmingham Political Union and its founder Thomas Attwood stirred up public opinion, and affected whig's lawmaking activities. Further, BPU produced a model of extra-parliamentary bodies. BPU's origin was Birmingham's unemployment and famine after 1815. BPU consistently intended to reform currency system and other economic problems.Second, BPU and Attwood held mass meetings to gain their objects from its foundation to passing Reform Act. So BPU and Attwood's movements saved the Reform Bill from defeat. After all, BPU helped to launch English Society on the path of political democracy.