Charter88

Charter88 is a British pressure group that advocates constitutional and electoral reform and owes its origins to the lack of a written constitution in the United Kingdom. It began as a letter to the New Statesman magazine in 1988 and it took its name from Charter 77 - the Czech dissident movement co-founded by Vaclav Havel. It also has a faint echo of the far more popular mid-19th Century Chartist Movement of England that resulted in an unsuccessful campaign for a People's Charter. Much of the original drive behind the organization has been drained and rendered moot by a parallel movement to enact a written constitution for a United Europe.

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British: The word British has several different uses. See the article on Britain for more details on the development and use of the word Britain....

New Statesman: :This article is about New Statesman magazine. For the Rik Mayall sitcom of the same name, see The New Statesman....

1988: 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar....