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Canning's Premiership to Passing of Reform Act.
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create peers sufficient to carry the bill, and convinced the Lords themselves that further resistance was impossible. So that it was truly a national, and not a party, victory which was completed, when on Thursday, June 7, 1832, the royal assent was given, and the Reform Bill became law.