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The Success of William Pitt the Younger in Dealing with the Problems of Finance and Administration
When Pitt came to power in December 1783, he came into a huge debt that England had developed over time. This debt hung over Pitt, and the English people, and during his time in office Pitt endeavoured to remove the debt completely. Resourceful new reforms, never tried before, were put into action. They changed the course of the English political system forever. Some historians believe this was not all thanks to Pitt's ingenuity because he didn't actually come up with the reforms himself.
One of the major things Pitt endeavoured to accomplish was ridding English politics of corruption and unnecessary bureaucracy. He accomplished this through a number of ingenious new internal reforms. However it is the opinion of many historians that these reforms were not that ingenious because they were not Pitt's reforms, he...
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