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Nov 30, 2009
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Reform' Bill"



Eng. Hist.
any of the bills passed by Parliament (1832, 1867, 1884) providing for an increase in the number of voters in elections for the House of Commons, esp. the bill of 1832 by which many rotten boroughs were disfranchised. Also called Reform' Act".

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