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Anti-Corn Law League
noun
- an organization founded in 1839 by Richard Cobden and John Bright to oppose the Corn Laws, which were repealed in 1846
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Let no opportunity be missed of exposing the true character of the vile and selfish agitators of the Anti-corn-law league.
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The Anti-corn-law League was shaking the basis of the old commercial legislation of England.
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Travers, too, I think a man of the Anti-corn-law-league order.
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The anti-Corn Law League, not accepting the concessions made in 1842 as final, continued to agitate and insist upon total repeal.
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The anti-corn law league was a trades-union of merchants contending against the owners of the soil.
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