Download or read book Church, Chapel and Party written by Richard D. Floyd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close examination of dozens of electoral contests in carefully chosen constituencies, the author demonstrates that the fundamental division separating the burgeoning liberal and conservative parties in England in the 1830s and 1840s was religion, and that this controversy was what created a perceptible two-party system in British politics.