This legislation was the first major attempt to eliminate pocket and rotten boroughs.
This legislation accompanied two other, similar acts authored by Francis Jeffrey and Henry Cockburn. Nottingham Castle was burned down by an angry mob because its resident, the Duke of Newcastle, opposed this legislation. When told that horses wouldn't be fast enough to take him where this legislation was being debated, the king replied "then I will go in a hackney cab!" Thomas Attwood gathered immense support for this piece of legislation by forming the Birmingham Political Union. An attempt to block this piece of legislation sparked a political crisis known as the (*) Days of May. Sydney Smith wrote that "Never was any administration so completely and so suddenly destroyed," as was the ministry of the Duke of Wellington after he gave a speech opposing efforts to bring about this legislation, which was passed under the tenure of Earl Grey. This legislation was the first major attempt to eliminate pocket and rotten boroughs. For 10 points, name this 1832 legislation which corrected injustices in the process of selecting members of parliament.
This legislation accompanied two other, similar acts authored by Francis Jeffrey and Henry Cockburn.
Great Reform Act [or First Reform Act; or Reform Act of 1832; or Representation of the People Act 1832; accept just Reform Act after "1832" is read; prompt on it before]