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British constitutional history since 1832 / Robert Livingston Schuyler and Corinne Comstock Weston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schuyler, Robert Livingston, 1883-1966, author.
- Weston, Corinne Comstock, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--Great Britain.
- Constitutional history.
- Constitutional law--Great Britain.
- Constitutional law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Van Nostrand, 1957.
- Contents:
- Pt. I-British constitutional history since 1832. Introduction: mixed government and democracy before 1832
- From mixed government to democracy, 1832-1867
- Democracy triumphant, 1864-1914
- From democracy to socialism, 1914-1956
- Ireland under the Union and after, 1801-1949
- The British constitution in world history
- Pt. II-Charles I on mixed government in England, 1642
- Sir William Blackstone on the British constitution, 1765
- The Duke of Richmond on parliamentary reform, 1783
- Paine on mixed government and republicanism, 1791
- Jeremy Bentham on the need for democracy
- Earl Grey on the reform bill, 1832
- The People's charter, 1837
- Walter Bagehot on cabinet government
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield on the essential characteristics of the British constitution, 1844
- Lord Lyndhurst on the lord's veto, 1858
- Gladstone on reform of the Borough franchise, 1864
- Disraeli and parliamentary reform, 1867
- Sidney Low on the House of Commons
- Origins of the labor party, 1900
- Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman on the House of Lords, 1907
- The Cabinet minute on the creation of peers, 1910
- The Parliament act, 1911
- The Defense of the realm consolidation act, 1914
- The War cabinet report, 1917
- Lord Curzon on the earlier cabinet, 1918
- Lord Birkenhead on woman suffrage, 1928
- The Abdication, 1936
- Dingle Foot on the power of the executive, 1937
- The Emergency powers (defense) act, 1939
- Liversidge v. Anderson, 1942
- Winston Churchill on the war cabinet
- The Parliamentary control of nationalized industries, 1950
- The Act of Union, 1800
- The Roman Catholic Emancipation Act, 1829
- Charles Stewart Parnell on home rule, 1885
- Douglas Hyde and Irish Nationalism, 1892
- Articles of agreement for a treaty between Great Britain and Ireland, 1921
- The Ireland Act, 1949.
- Notes:
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