1. Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (New York: Basic Books, 2000), Table A.3.
2. John A. Phillips and Charles Wetherell, ‘The Great Reform Act of 1832 and the Political Modernization of England’, American Historical Review, 100 (April 1995), especially pp. 411–12, stress the modernizing effects against revisionist interpretations.
3. Christine Bolt, The Women’s Movement in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993); Jane Rendall, The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States, 1780–1860 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985), pp. 300–2; Bonnie Anderson, Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement, 1830–1860 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 168–72, 195–6.
4. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, The Age of Jackson (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1945), pp. 118, 318.
5. Quoted George D. Lillibridge, Beacon of Freedom: The Impact of American Democracy on Great Britain (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1954), p. xiii.