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.

Related Topics:
British - New Statesman - 1988 - Charter 77 - Czech - Vaclav Havel - 19th Century - Chartist Movement - England - People's Charter - United Europe

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