Utilitarianism in Great Britain

19th C

20 cards·by euge

benthanism/legislati

political / main bills passed

1832 1st Reform bill / 1834 Poor Law amendment Act / 1835 municipal corporation act

Economic / main bills passed

1833 Factory Act/ 1846 repeal of corn laws / 1849 repeal of navigation acts

social / main bills passed

1833 slavery abolition act / 1842 mines act / 1848 Health act

educational/ main bills passed

1833 1st Gov grants to schools / 1839 school inspectors appointed

main representative of Benthanism´s ideas in Gov.

Peel

motivating creed

the greatest happiness of the greatest number

minimum state intervention except in...

protecion f property, public order, national defence

means of gov. intervention

mild reform

bentham defended

franchise extension, laissez-faire, mild legislation in social field

Reform penal code

1820 (assure application of punishment)

metropolitan police force

1829 (New scotland yard)

1st great era of reform

1830´s (social & political)

1st reform bill

1832 (industrialists enfranchised)

abolition of slavery through all Britain

1833

factory Act

1833 (children protected)

poor law amendment

1834

municipal corporation act

1835 abolition of rotten boroughs

state control of schools

1839

mines act

1842

10 hours bill

factory act 1847