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Political Union

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Political Union
The transfer of most or all sovereignty from two or more states to form a single state. A political union may be a unitary state; that is, all constituent states cease to have legal existence (except maybe as administrative divisions) and they are subject to the same law. Alternatively, a political union may be federal, in which the new state is given certain responsibilities and remaining powers stay with the previously independent states. Political unions generally have one currency and have no trade barriers between constituent states.


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Thomas Attwood was by far and away the most significant figure involved in Parliamentary reform and as founder of the Birmingham Political Union led a national movement culminating in the Great Reform Act 1832 which for the first time gave Birmingham and the other emerging centres of population representation in Parliament at the expense of the "rotten boroughs".
The background is this: after a soul-stirring visit by leading light Emmeline Pankhurst in 1906, about 50 Huddersfield women formed their own branch of the national Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
1903: Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst formed the Women's Social and Political Union to fight for female emancipation in Britain.
 
 
 
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