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Were the Corn Laws Justified?
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Adam Wright 19th January 2003 Were the Corn Laws Justified? Plan Yes Distress in areas of agricultural importance, majority of pop not urban, + bankruptcies War food supply Political + social stability- Radicals Vote winner No Starvation instigates political awareness Free market interference-trade war, industrialists, depresses manufactured goods Trio of legislation anti common man The Corn Law was a potentially dangerous bill introduced in 1815 after three years of good harvests. It was instigated with the support of Lord Liverpool the current Prime Minister who saw the Corn Laws as a temporary measure to create stability in the agricultural sector in the immediate post-war years. The Corn Laws were potentially disastrous because they, along with the abolishment of Income tax and the creation of the Game laws, were seen as a return by the ultra-Tory's to a single-issue, single class government. That issue being the wants and needs of the landed classes. I personally believe...
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