The Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753 was a British law allowing Jews to naturalize, repealed within a year of passage. In 2020 the opening said "the public reacted with an enormous outburst of antisemitism, and the Bill was repealed in the next sitting of Parliament, in 1754." Today the opening attributes the repeal to "widespread opposition to its provisions," and the word survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn that the Act's repeal followed a public antisemitic backlash, not generic opposition.
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Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753 was an Act of Parliament (26 Geo. 2, c. 26) of the Parliament of Great Britain , which received royal assent on 7 July 1753 but was repealed in 1754 (27 Geo 2, c. 1) due to widespread opposition to its provisions. During the Jacobite rising of 1745 , the Jews had shown particular loyalty to the government. Their chief financier, Sampson Gideon , had strengthened the stock market , and several of the younger members had volunteered in the corps raised to defend London. Possibly as a reward, Henry Pelham in 1753 brought in the Jew Bill of 1753 , which allowed Jews to become naturalised by application to Parliament. It passed the Lords without much opposition, but on being brought down to the House of Commons , the Tories made protest against what they deemed an "abandonment of Christianity." The Whigs , however, persisted in carrying out at least one part of their general policy of religious toleration , and the bill was passed and received royal assent (26 Geo. The public reacted with an enormous outburst of antisemitism, and the Bill was repealed in the next sitting of Parliament, in 1754.1 Cassell's Chronology of World History .
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The opening as it stood in 2005
(This page is part of the History of the Jews in England ) During the Jacobite insurrection of 1745 the Jews had shown particular loyalty to the government. Their chief financier, Samson Gideon , had strengthened the stock market , and several of the younger members had volunteered in the corps raised to defend London. Possibly as a reward, Pelham in 1753 brought in the Jew Bill of 1753 , which allowed Jews to become naturalized by application to Parliament . It passed the Lords without much opposition, but on being brought down to the Commons the Tory party made a great outcry against this "abandonment of Christianity ," as they called it. On the other hand, it was contended that the Jews performed a very valuable function in the commercial economy of the nation, providing one-twelfth of the nation's profits and one-twentieth of its foreign trade. The Whigs , however, persisted in carrying out at least one part of their general policy of religious toleration, and the bill was passed and received the royal assent (26 Geo.
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The Jewish Naturalization Act 1753 was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain , which received royal assent on 7 July 1753 but was repealed in 1754 due to widespread opposition to its provisions.During the Jacobite rising of 1745, the Jews had shown particular loyalty to the government. Their chief financier, Sampson Gideon , had strengthened the stock market , and several of the younger members had volunteered in the corps raised to defend London. Possibly as a reward, Henry Pelham in 1753 brought in the Jew Bill of 1753 , which allowed Jews to become naturalized by application to Parliament . It passed the Lords without much opposition, but on being brought down to the House of Commons , the Tories made a great outcry against this "abandonment of Christianity ", as they called it. The Whigs , however, persisted in carrying out at least one part of their general policy of religious toleration , and the bill was passed and received the royal assent (26 Geo. Cassell's Chronology of World History .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
The Jewish Naturalization Act 1753 was an Act of Parliament (26 Geo. 2, c. 26) of the Parliament of Great Britain , which received royal assent on 7 July 1753 but was repealed in 1754 (27 Geo 2, c. 1) due to widespread opposition to its provisions. During the Jacobite rising of 1745 , the Jews had shown particular loyalty to the government. Their chief financier, Sampson Gideon , had strengthened the stock market , and several of the younger members had volunteered in the corps raised to defend London. Possibly as a reward, Henry Pelham in 1753 brought in the Jew Bill of 1753 , which allowed Jews to become naturalized by application to Parliament. It passed the Lords without much opposition, but on being brought down to the House of Commons , the Tories made a great outcry against this "abandonment of Christianity", as they called it. The Whigs , however, persisted in carrying out at least one part of their general policy of religious toleration , and the bill was passed and received the royal assent (26 Geo. Cassell's Chronology of World History .
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The Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753 was an Act of Parliament ( 26 Geo. 2 . c. 26) which allowed Jews resident in Britain to become naturalised by application to Parliament . It received royal assent on 7 July 1753 but was repealed in 1754 ( 27 Geo. 2 . c. 1) due to widespread opposition to its provisions. Cassell's Chronology of World History .
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act of parliament of the parliament of great britain
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