1. 6HUM0400: the Politics of Parliamentary Reform: Lecture 3: Responses to the American Revolution

2. Structure of the lecture
key themes and ideologies
impact of the American war and revolution
association movement
successes of economical reform
faltering of parliamentary reform movement

3. Object of the week: Robert Laurie, ‘Association Meeting at York’ (1780), British Museum
Landed interest
Manufacture
Public Credit
Public Virtue
Liberty
Commerce
Hope
Election

4. ‘The Deplorable state of America, or, Sc---h Government’, 1765

5. ‘The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught’ London Magazine, April 1774

6. Thomas Paine (1737-1809), and Common Sense (1776)

7. Rev Christopher Wyvill (1738–1822)

8. Westminster Association figures
Charles James Fox (1749–1806)
Major John Cartwright (1740–1824)
Richard Price (1723–1791)

9. Major Cartwright, Take your Choice! (1776)
‘personality is the sole foundation of the right of being represented’;
‘property had in reality nothing to do in the case’ [of representation]

10. Resolutions of the Corporation of London, 31 January 1782 Black, The Association, p. 85
Resolved, that the unequal representation of the people, the corrupt state of parliament, and the perversion thereof, from its original institution, have been the principal causes of the unjust war with America, of the consequent dismemberment of the British Empire, and of every grievance of which we complain…

11. Gordon Riots, June 1780

12. James Sayers, ‘Carlo Khan’s Triumphal Entry into Leadenhall Street’, December 1783

13. Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Devonshire, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes’, April 1784

14. Object of the week: Robert Laurie, ‘Association Meeting at York’ (1780), British Museum
Landed interest
Manufacture
Public Credit
Public Virtue
Liberty
Commerce
Hope
Election