... business to attend to the interest of the country. * Equal Constituencies, securing the same amount of representation for the same number of electors, instead of allowing small constituencies to swamp the vote of large ones. * Annual Parliament, thus presenting the most effectual check to bribery and intimidation, since though a constituency might be bought once in seven years (even with the ballot), no purse could buy a constituency (under a system of universal suffrage) in each ensuing twelvemonth; and since members, when elected for a year only, would not be able to defy and betray their constituents as now. There are many reasons, which prove to us that that Chartism was mainly a political movement. Demands for change and Secret Ballot contributed to this fact. The fact that they wanted Annual Parliament is clearly a political point. They wanted annual Parliament so that they can what is really going on ...

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