http://ods-qa.openlinksw.com:8896/sparql?query=define%20sql%3Adescribe-mode%20%22CBD%22%20%20DESCRIBE%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FCharter_88%3E&output=application%2Fatom%2Bxml2024-03-28T15:49:03.071903ZOData Service and Descriptor Documenthttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Charter_882024-03-28T15:49:03.071903ZCharter 88 was a British pressure group that advocated constitutional and electoral reform and owes its origins to the lack of a written constitution. It began as a special edition of the New Statesman magazine in 1988 and it took its name from Charter 77 – the Czechoslovak dissident movement co-founded by Václav Havel. It also has a faint echo of the far more popular mid-19th century Chartist Movement of England that resulted in an unsuccessful campaign for a People's Charter and also Magna Carta or 'Great Charter' of 1215. In November 2007 Charter 88 merged with the New Politics Network to form Unlock Democracy.103157888812976Charter 88 was a British pressure group that advocated constitutional and electoral reform and owes its origins to the lack of a written constitution. It began as a special edition of the New Statesman magazine in 1988 and it took its name from Charter 77 – the Czechoslovak dissident movement co-founded by Václav Havel. It also has a faint echo of the far more popular mid-19th century Chartist Movement of England that resulted in an unsuccessful campaign for a People's Charter and also Magna Carta or 'Great Charter' of 1215. In November 2007 Charter 88 merged with the New Politics Network to form Unlock Democracy.539380Charter 88