Corn Laws
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Although to Americans the concept of "corn laws" might sound rather quaint, within the context of late 18th and early 19th-century British history these laws were of vital importance in determining who in society held power over others. This paper argues that the Corn Laws of 1815 should have been repealed because they tended to benefit the landed and the wealthy over the poor and they were simply a rearguard action to try to prevent the inevitable changes that would accompany urbanization and industrialization.As Pickering and Tyrell describe the history of the corn laws in their assessment of populist reaction against them, these laws go back in Britain to soon after the Norman invasion and refer to the regulation of all types of grain (the word "corn" comes from the Latin word "granum", which also gives us the English word "grain") but the laws did not become politically very important until the end of the 18th century when the blockades against Britain put up by Napoleon's navy began to take effect and
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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