Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… of polite sociability. A 1705 election tract lamented that the aggressive tactics of low churchmen were ‘a piece of incivility’ and that divisions had become ‘like the raising of a civil war amongst us at every election’. 10 ‘Black-lists’ … Septennial Act in 1716, as polarisation eroded sociability: partisans could hardly be ‘brought to pay one another the civility of the hat’. 12 Elections, it was said, filled the land ‘with drunkenness, opprobrious language, impious oaths …
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