House of Keys Election Act
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- Name
- House of Keys Election Act
- Description
- The House of Keys Election Act gave Manx people the right to elect their own representatives for the first time. Previously the Keys had been a self-electing body. The Act was the culmination of forty-five years of petitioning — the constitutional machinery that the Revestment had silenced, slowly restarting.
- Date
- 1866
- Place
- Isle of Man
- People Involved
- Chapter 18
- Type
- Constitutional / Legislative