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‘Peel did more to damage than to build the Tory Party in the years 1829 and 1846’. Assess the validity of this statement. Robert Peel’s time as Prime Minister can be looked at in two ways; either he was the benefactor of his country or a politician who betrayed party interest on numerous occasions. I believe that Peel did substantially more to build than damage the Tory party; it is because of his leadership, many social reforms came to pass but is also because of his leadership that the Tory party eventually split. Peel realised that the needs of his country were more important than the narrow interests of a minority within his own party. Fundamentally Peel put the nation before the party, which may seem like a betrayal to his party but what …show more content…

The Bank Charter Act (1844) aimed to restore confidence in a system that had suffered 4 major financial crises since 1819. The main problem was that banks could issue paper bank notes with no limits on the account. Some banks, having over-issued notes would then collapse due to insufficient gold reserves to back the paper currency. Peel concluded that the economy could only expand if the currency was stable. The aim of the Bank Charter Act was to regulate the new rules: no new banks were allowed to issue notes, existing banks were limited to their average issue of notes and the Bank of England was given greater control over banknote issues, which was linked to bullion reserves and securities. This was one reform which proved highly successful for Peel and the Tory party, building not damaging the party in the eyes of their citizens. Peel’s financial reforms were met with the approval of the majority of his party, and although Peel tackled major issues that faced government there remained underlying tensions within the party about the extent to which members were expected to ‘toe the party

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Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill re-chartering the Second Bank in July 1832 by arguing that in the form presented to him it was incompatible with “justice,” “sound policy” and the Constitution. The bank’s charter was unfair, Jackson argued in his veto message, because it gave the bank considerable, almost monopolistic, market power, specifically in the markets that moved financial resources around the country and into and out of other nations. That market power increased the bank’s profits and thus its stock price, “which operated as a gratuity of many millions [of dollars] to the stockholders,” who, Jackson claimed, were mostly “foreigners” and “our own opulent citizens.” He then suggested that it would be fairer to most Americans to create a wholly government-owned bank instead, or at least to auction the Second Bank of the US’s monopoly privileges to the highest bidder.

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Betrayer’ of his party, however as mentioned previously Peel’s opinion was ‘Not can you turn out a government! But, Can you keep in any government, and stave off confusion’. Peel was a man who acted upon the interests of the nation and its people, not upon the direct interests of his party’s backbenchers. As seen, there were many incidences where Peel acted against the rest of his party and would defy the conventional means of staying in power, incidences where it seemed Peel was heading down a blind alley and it was inevitable that his decisions would cause the collapse of his party, yet he would still manage to emerge somewhat successful. This happened on a number of occasions and according to Norman Gash, ‘How people behave in a crisis is often determined not by immediate issues and arguments, since these may point to more than one line of action, but pre-existing

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This caused the new banks’ failure by issuing the Specie Circular order in 1836. The government land required payment to be in gold. The National Banks of United States collapsed, this caused what we know as the Panic of 1837, that Andrew Jackson’s successor had to deal with. This was much unorganized, banks got removed, etc. The lack of national banks was one of the many speculations that contributed policies that caused the market to crash in the year of 1837.

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