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Corn laws

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laws regulating trade in corn, especially those in force in Great Britain till 1846, prohibiting the importation of foreign grain for home consumption, except when the price rose above a certain rate.

See also: Corn



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Mixed feelings intensified after the Corn Laws were repealed; buying and selling at the Great Exhibition in 1851, for example, had turned it into the "Sublime of the Bazaar," implying that the event in Hyde Park was not only a beautiful apotheosis but that it also simultaneously inspired awe and even terror.
The central principle of the Corn Laws was that treatment of corn imports should vary with the market price of corn.
The age of the Great Reform Act and abolition of the Corn Laws saw a new dominance, that of the middle class, and their tastes were those of inconspicuous consumption.
 
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