Definition of "chartism" []

• The practices and methodologies of chartists. (noun)

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• "This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs, and seas, and rains proclaimed, —that intellect and personal force should make the law; that industry and administrative talent should administer; that work should wear the crown."
• "The English dislike the American structure of society, whilst yet trade, mills, public education, and chartism are doing what they can to create in England the same social condition."
• "'We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority, and violated every code, human and divine, abroad, and fostered chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written _Jane Eyre_.'"