|
Description: Abstract: The Six Acts were a response by Lord Liverpool and his Tory government to the Peterloo Massace of 1819. When Parliament reassembled on 23rd November, 1819, the government's Home Secretary, announced their details. By the 30th December, 1819, Parliament had debated and passed six measures that it hoped would suppress radical newspapers and meetings as well as reducing the possibility of an armed uprising. These measures were opposed by the Whigs as being a suppression of popular rights and liberties and warned that it was unreasonable to pass national laws to deal with problems that only existed in certain areas, especially when those measures would encourage even more rebellion.
|
