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12:15 and magna carta limits the power
of the king for the first time as the
Barons lay down the law with King John
in 1258 Simon de Montfort's Great
Council and the provisions of Oxford
gave a small group of commoners a wider
hand in governing the realm like father
like son Henry tried to back out of the
agreement prompting a civil war de
Montfort won and at his 1265 Parliament
called representatives from towns and
cities together another first then the
model Parliament of 1295 gave burrows
and shires two representatives each 1430
and the vote was given to free holders
of land worth 40 shillings or more and
the Putney debates of 1647 saw the
Levellers argue for voting rights for
all
it was nearly 200 years before the great
Reform Act of 1832 swept away rotten
boroughs extending the vote to the new
industrial cities reforms followed
reforms followed reforms and the
electorate grew ahem and in 1918
universal suffrage was finally achieved
for men over 21 and women over 30 a
decade later matched at 21 today every
eligible UK citizen over 18 has the
right to vote for their representative
in Parliament