Forty-shilling freeholders were those who had the parliamentary franchise to vote by virtue of possessing freehold property, or lands held directly of...
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must have earnings for 40 quarters (equivalent to 10 years). Forty-shilling freeholders, a nickname, given to those who qualified for a franchise, the...
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that lead to chaos and ultimately corruption. Anarcho-capitalism Forty-shilling freeholders Right-libertarianism Harper, Douglas (November 2001). ""Timocracy"...
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same day as the relief bill, the act disenfranchised Ireland's Forty Shilling Freeholders, by raising the property threshold for the county vote to the...
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requirements for paying tax remained in five states. Timocracy Forty-shilling freeholders Plutocracy Walker, Graham. A History of the Ulster Unionist Party:...
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be styled knight or esquire or gentleman, and who, not being a forty-shilling freeholder was not a yeoman, was described as husbandman." It has also been...
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intervals to the Parliament of England since 1265. From 1432 only forty-shilling freeholders held the parliamentary franchise. The franchise for the Parliament...
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process simultaneously disenfranchised the small tenants, known as 'forty shilling freeholders', who were mainly Catholics. Daniel O'Connell, who had led the...
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ten pounds. This eliminated the middling tenantry (the Irish "forty-shilling freeholders") who had risked much in defying their landlords on O'Connell's...
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in different types of constituency; in county constituencies forty shilling freeholders (i.e. landowners) could vote, while in boroughs the franchise...
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