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The national reform union was based largely on a Liberal party group. It strived to show that the working class and middle class had similar political interests and could work together to achieve:

• Elected every three years
• Elected by secret Ballot
• Equal distribution of seats
• Franchise based on male ratepayers

The reform league was a more extraversion organisation they differed from the Union as the League was committed to Adult male suffrage. Trade Unionists, former chartists and the working class supported them. The league differed from the union as it lacked the wealth and respectability that the union had. These two groups co- existed in the years before the second reform Act.

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