# ent

id: 39711
type: ORG
entity:
  the Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery--Case of Commendams--Arbitrary Proceedings in Star-Chamber--Arabella Stuart


id: 32612
type: ORG
entity:
  the Supreme Court of Judicature, County Courts, Courts of Quarter Sessions and Courts of Summary Jurisdiction


id: 34471
type: DATE
entity:
  1863 4 1864 2 1865 4 1866 2 1867 8 1868 7 1869 2 1870 2 1871 4 1872 8 1873 4 1874 0 1875 0 1876 0 1877


# bib

id: 15681
title: Constructive Imperialism
author: Milner, Alfred Milner, Viscount
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  Tariff Reform in a sound national policy, for, indeed, it seems to me duties upon foreign imports as so-called Free Traders go blindly think Tariff Reformers want to put duties on foreign goods for the fun duties of Tariff Reformers to keep people''s eyes fixed upon this vital great trading nation are bound to think of your markets, not only your all doubt and question so much more work for British hands. looking at public questions from other than party points of view. From my point of view, social reform is a national affair. Unionist party going to confront the great problems of the present think that those people, with whom Tariff Reformers agree on almost the great Tariff Reform campaign was inaugurated in this country by a few instances that a policy of Tariff Reform is not a thing in the one of great national importance, because the sweated workers are


id: 15572
title: A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893
author: Dicey, Albert Venn
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  shall decide whether a law passed by the Irish Parliament violates Ireland a Parliament intended to legislate on all, or nearly all, Irish of any Irish members at all, means under a scheme of Home Rule the ruin Irish Parliament must flit to and fro between Ireland and England, and the Imperial Parliament at Westminster, as, for example, whether Mr. Gladstone or Lord Salisbury shall be head of the British Cabinet, shall constitute the English Cabinet; on the Irish vote will depend Irish Parliament is, under the new constitution, competent to pass. England and Ireland, the English Government and the Irish The supremacy of the Imperial Parliament means to Irish Home Rulers and Home Rule, a new constitution for the United Kingdom, 1, 19; Home Rule, a new constitution for the United Kingdom, 1, 19; powers of the Irish Government under Home Rule Bill, 66 _et seq_., Irish Government Act, _see_ Home Rule Bill


id: 19609
title: The Rise of the Democracy
author: Clayton, Joseph
txt: ./txt/19609.txt
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summary:
  Local Government--The Workman in the House of Commons--Working-class Government--Bureaucracy--Working-Class Ascendancy--On Behalf of Democracy Parliament of elected members has become the real centre of government, is All "lawful" men are to have a free right to pass in and out of England in To-day democracy takes the form of representative government in civilised government by King, Lords, and Commons; but both were determined that the Parliament; the House of Commons could govern without a King. responsibility of the King''s Ministers to the Houses of Parliament. government is, and ought to be, by King, Lords, and Commons," and Charles Henceforth government was to be by King, Lords, and Commons; but Three representative working-class leaders in the House of Commons stand the House of Commons when a Liberal Government has been in power. Parliament, he can even be a member of the House of Commons. Parliament and proclaim democracy--"Government of the people, by the


id: 17294
author: Various
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  Balance of Power and the League of Nations. form of League of Nations, the idea of the Balance of Power was not Balance of Power and the League of Nations is so fundamental as the problem are these; the need to protect special industries for war for the wages in the protected industries of the States were so far from keep on foot, on a large scale, an industry which in time of war has In any modern State the control of the action of Government is largely produces a chronic state of internal war which saps industrial activity of the three greatest industrial countries in the world, Great Britain believe it can be done, for almost every great industry in the country. It is time that the general public outside the industry took the matter the war-time system of Agricultural Wages Boards. Government interference with industry, and cut out the power of control

title:
  Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922


id: 15086
title: The Framework of Home Rule
author: Childers, Erskine
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  Irish abnormalities render Ireland unfit for self-government. Britain should govern Ireland on the ground that the British electorate, Ireland the Government was systematically anti-Irish. conceived the idea of governing Ireland according to Irish ideas, came Pitt, in the Legislative Union of Ireland and Great Britain nine years Colonial Office for Canada and the Irish Office for Ireland, both analogy to that Union of Britain and Ireland which had paralyzed Irish War of 1882 was brewing, and Ireland, where the Great Land Act of 1881 some form of Federal Home Rule for Ireland. Irish People," Lord Dunraven in "The Outlook in Ireland," and Mr. G.F.H. Berkeley in a paper contributed to "Home Rule Problems," have lucidly Ireland more control over Imperial matters affecting the self-governing to in the case of any other country than Ireland, but because Irish exist between Great Britain and Ireland will be to put upon the Irish


id: 18419
title: Liberalism and the Social Problem
author: Churchill, Winston
txt: ./txt/18419.txt
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  years--with Free Trade, Colonial Preferences, the South African those were good and expanding years of British trade and national this country exercises a great influence upon the Government. accorded to the Mother Country by the self-governing States of the to the Government of the Colony for the general purposes of State, and the present time a Liberal Government, however powerful, cannot look action of the House of Lords at the present time forces the Executive people of this country will elect a mad House of Commons, and that the "We like Free Trade and we are Liberals at heart, but this Government hours and the general conditions of labour are such as to cause great better for the country it governs and the Party it represents. that in our Constitution a Government, supported by a House of Commons In no great country in the new world or the old


id: 5183
title: The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage
author: Wright, Almroth
txt: ./txt/5183.txt
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summary:
  woman that Mill sets himself to work out the benefits which women Non-Voter--The Grievance of Woman being Required to Obey Man-Made Non-Voter--The Grievance of Woman being Required to Obey Man-Made equity limited in its application to the case between man and woman. question not only in connexion with such an issue as woman suffrage, The man who looks forward to the intellectual development of woman woman has to submit herself to "_man-made laws_." The _third_ point in which the law distinguishes between man and woman that an ordinary man and an ordinary woman are, from the point of view that we may appropriately, in comparing the morals of man and woman, clearly, the point that woman''s moral ideals are personal and man feels that he and woman belong to different intellectual castes, much is under civilisation done for woman by man. man and woman have in the countries in question been conspicuously between man and woman.


id: 34856
title: My Own Story
author: Pankhurst, Emmeline
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  break down opposition to suffrage by showing the men that women possess the women guardians'' demand for a reform of one part of the Poor Law. That section deals with the little children who are boarded out, not by opening day of Parliament, the association sent a deputation of women to responsible leaders that the new Government would make women''s suffrage Government, calling themselves Liberal, were reactionary so far as women Liberal Government would give women the vote. voice: "Will the Liberal Government give women the vote?" Liberal party until women are given votes on equal terms with men. Government still refused to notice the women''s question; they declared offenders in a common police court, and I said that we were not women women meeting outside the House." And that this committee said to the House of Commons not only that they must vote for a women''s suffrage


id: 34471
title: The Government of England (Vol. I)
author: Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence)
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  local government acts, no charter conferring political power can now be electing members to the House of Commons;[25:3] and the power to create life peers with votes in the House of Lords.[25:4] Other powers again, general rule which excludes from the House of Commons all office-holders judge, as the presiding officer of the House of Lords, and as a member only in the case of great party measures, where both sides of the House private members, orders of the day practically mean bills, and notices of private members to the work of the House, which forms the subject of member without any order of the House; but under the present rules an committees were under the control of the government the private member [Sidenote: Few Party Votes in Committees.] the officers of the House of Lords, carried against the government in [Sidenote: Officers of the House of Lords.]


id: 39711
title: Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3
author: Hallam, Henry
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  the king''s courts; but in these the common rules of law and the mode of given to the king by acts of parliament in the last year of Henry, and the House of Commons, attended by several lords, to declare the king''s James the Fifth, late King of Scots, otherwise called Mary Queen of the king having bound himself to use according to law that power, it so the King''s Bench, Common Pleas, and other courts, to their great charges house._--The Commons asserted in this reign, perhaps for the first time, queen says: "By our common law, although there be for the prince laws made publicly in parliament may by the king''s authority be king''s absolute power, and not in a grant of parliament; a point, parliaments upon it, though the law could never be respected if the king knew the true and ancient common law to be the most favourable to kings


id: 32612
title: The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis
author: Figgis, Darrell
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summary:
  "The Supreme Court of the Irish Free State shall, with such Council of the Irish Free State shall respectively pass such further State/Saorstat Eireann and shall within the limits of the Irish Free The Chamber/Dail Eireann shall be composed of members who represent of whom four Ministers shall be Members of the Chamber/Dail Eireann and a The judicial power of the Irish Free State/Saorstat Eireann shall be The Supreme Court of the Irish Free State/Saorstat Eireann shall, with Government of the Irish Free State/Saorstat Eireann shall be regarded as Constitution of the Irish Free State as by law established and that I to elect members of the Council of Ireland shall after the Parliament of 1920, but the Parliament and Government of the Irish Free State shall in 1920, but the Parliament and Government of the Irish Free State shall in the constitution of a Parliament and Government of the Irish Free State in


id: 41304
title: The Mother of Parliaments
author: Graham, Harry
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summary:
  House of Lords by Act of Parliament in 1640--Cromwell omitted to of Parliament the House of Lords consisted almost entirely of life in 1831, when Sidney Smith likened the House of Lords to Mrs. Partington, the old lady of Sidmouth who, during the great storm of a member of the House of Lords was tried by his peers, on July 18, "House of Commons tact." Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, was appointed Lord Keeper in Â£10,000--Â£5000 as Lord Chancellor, and Â£5000 as Speaker of the House Reading Clerk of the House of Lords, desires the faithful Commons to In the House of Lords peers address their fellows; in the Commons Justice informed the House of Lords that the High Court of Parliament Lord Chancellor, addressed the House three times on the day he took members of Parliament, in the special House of Commons'' gallery, or at


id: 48614
title: Women''s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
author: Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Dame
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summary:
  PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN''S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES last time he ever gave a vote for women''s suffrage. formed the nucleus of the National Union of Women''s Suffrage Societies, in the House of Commons of the women''s suffrage movement. Bill, the 73 members who voted for women''s suffrage included about 10 the experienced political men who supported women''s suffrage told us Reform Bill of 1884, the most vehement opposition was offered by Mr. Gladstone; not indeed even then to the principle of women''s suffrage, adoption of women''s suffrage in New Zealand and in South Australia. success of women''s suffrage in New Zealand and South Australia in 1892. "That the Council of the National Union of Women''s Suffrage Societies Women''s Suffrage society on non-party lines, which should by meetings, opposed a women''s suffrage amendment to the Reform Bill of that year. favourable to women''s suffrage, and representing the parties--Liberal, _Times, The_, on Women''s Suffrage, 77


id: 42179
title: Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3
author: Hallam, Henry
txt: ./txt/42179.txt
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summary:
  Difficulties about the Restoration -New Parliament -King parliament," says Justice Crawley, "appertains to the king originally, acts of parliament to bind the king not to command the subjects, their [154] The king had long before said that "parliaments are like cats; Commons that it is high treason in the King of England for the time two powerful bodies, whom neither kings nor parliaments in England proposals by the king''s letter to the two houses of parliament. parliament from the time of the king''s return till their dissolution act in the House of Lords, notwithstanding the king''s personal The House of Commons voted that the king''s parliament." The king, in a speech to the House of Lords, complained king to govern by a standing army was treason at common law, and seems purpose; and that the court party in the House of Lords were powerful


id: 4351
title: The English Constitution
author: Bagehot, Walter
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summary:
  I conceive, therefore, that the great power of the House of Lords It is true that a completely new House of Lords, mainly composed of men English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence. incited to form an opinion like a nation under a Cabinet government; assembly?" The French people said, "We will be governed by the one man Nor would any party like to trust to a weak man the great power which a the House of Lords at the time, and the Constitution of the country. the Lords, "Use the powers of your House as we like, or you shall not old institution like the House of Lords is necessarily great; its question--how the House of Commons comes to be able to govern at all? fix on some one great man whom it knows, but the English nation could are really governed by a Cabinet and a Parliament--men like themselves,


id: 10000
title: The Magna Carta
author: Anonymous
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  (2) If any earl, baron, or other person that holds lands directly of the Crown, for military service, shall die, and at his death his heir knight''s ''fee'', and any man that owes less shall pay less, in When the heir comes of age, he shall restore the whole land to military service shall have died, and at the time of his death his heir land shall be committed to two lawful and discreet men of that fee, who 4. The guardian of the land of an heir who is thus under age, shall 4. The guardian of the land of an heir who is thus under age, shall 4. The guardian of the land of an heir who is thus under age, shall and we shall hold it in the same manner in which the baron held it. and we shall hold it in the same manner in which the baron held it.


id: 35184
title: The Character of the British Empire
author: Muir, Ramsay
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  Nearly all the great self-governing nations of the world are now Russian, British or French, it is equally the foe of free government." self-governing Colonies of the British Empire without any compulsion self-governing British colonies, or by imitation, as in all other cases. British peoples alone had the habit and instinct of self-government in development) has been strikingly shown in the Great War. Thus British institutions--the institutions of national self-government, all the seas of the world, the British Empire would undoubtedly be modern European history, then, British naval power has been the ultimate the great self-governing dominions, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Clearly, so far as concerns the great dominions, the British Empire is What, then, has the establishment of British power meant in India? the British power was established, India had in all her long history the self-governing Colonies, membership of the British Empire does not


id: 45773
author: James I, King of England
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  Wee neede not giue account thereof vnto any: yet, according to Our more respect then euer any House of Commons did to Vs, or (as Wee of good and profitable Lawes: Yet Wee gaue them time and scope for declared, that Wee would make a Recesse on the fourth day of Iune next We appointed to adiourne the Parliament on the fourth day of Iune, adiournement, which being made knowen vnto Vs, Wee againe signified Our pleasure to both Houses, that on the fourth day of Iune the Parliament Parliament, and made offer thereof vnto them, which being in effect of the house of Commons making it their choise, Wee made a Recesse by free pardon and good Lawes to bee passed, as they had both by the great this Our resolution, with the reasons thereof vnto all Our Subiects, and conuenient time, which Wee hope shall not bee long, to Call and

title:
  A Proclamation Declaring His Maiesties Pleasure Concerning the Dissoluing of the Present Conuention of Parliament


