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Albert Venn Dicey. England's Case Against Home Rule
England's Case Against Home Rule
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ENGLAND'S CASE AGAINST HOME RULE
CHAPTER I
NATURE OF THE ARGUMENT
CHAPTER II
MEANING OF HOME RULE
CHAPTER III
STRENGTH OF THE HOME RULE MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER IV
ENGLISH ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF HOME RULE
CHAPTER V
THE MAINTENANCE OF THE UNION
CHAPTER VI
SEPARATION
CHAPTER VII
HOME RULE—ITS FORMS
CHAPTER VIII
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BILL.[74]
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES
PART I. Legislative Authority
Executive Authority
Constitution of Legislative Body
Finance
Police
PART II
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
Powers of Her Majesty
Legislative Body
Decision of Constitutional Questions
Lord-Lieutenant
Judges and Civil Servants
Transitory Provisions
Miscellaneous
A Bill to amend the provision for the future Government of Ireland
PART I
Legislative Authority
Executive Authority
Constitution of Legislative Body
Finance
Police
PART II
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS. Powers of Her Majesty
Legislative Body
Decision of Constitutional Questions
Judges and Civil Servants
Transitory Provisions
Miscellaneous
FIRST SCHEDULE. FIRST ORDER OF THE IRISH LEGISLATIVE BODY
SECOND SCHEDULE. PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE FIRST ORDER OF THE IRISH LEGISLATIVE BODY
THIRD SCHEDULE. BOUNDARIES OF DIVISIONS OF THE CITY OF CORK FOR THE PURPOSE OF RETURNING MEMBERS TO THE SECOND ORDER OF THE LEGISLATIVE BODY
FOURTH SCHEDULE. PROVISIONS AS TO SUPERANNUATION ALLOWANCES OF PERSONS IN THE PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE
FIFTH SCHEDULE. TRANSITORY PROVISIONS
FOOTNOTES
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Albert Venn Dicey
Published by Good Press, 2019
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This impression may it is possible be conveyed to a careless reader by the form in which the case against Home Rule is stated; but no suggestion can in reality be more unfounded. It will be seen to be unfounded by any one who notes for a moment the meaning of the term "interest" as applied to matters of national policy. The interest or the welfare of a nation comprises many things which have nothing to do with trade or with wealth, and the value of which does not admit of being measured in money. The interest, welfare, or prosperity of England includes the maintenance of her honour, the performance of all her obligations, and, above all, the strict discharge of every engagement which she has undertaken towards countries or to individuals. The protection, for example, of law-abiding citizens in the enjoyment of rights secured to them by law; the maintenance of peace throughout the length and breadth of the Empire; the suppression of lawlessness; the strict performance of every promise which the State has made to every man or body of men, whether poor or rich, whether belonging to the class of labourers, of farmers, or even of landlords—the rendering, in short, to every man of his due—are things which without any improper extension of the term interest fall under the head of national interests. Utilitarianism, in truth, being a body of principles applicable primarily to legislation and only secondarily to ethics, its doctrines hold far more obviously true in the field of politics than in the field of morals. On any wide view of large public questions expediency will be found to be only another name for justice. It can be neither the interest nor the duty of any nation to legislate in a way which produces more of suffering than of happiness. A policy opposed to the interests or the welfare of the United Kingdom as a whole, even though it may appear for a moment to favour some particular portion of the State, is, we may be well assured, a policy opposed not only to wisdom, but to justice.
3. Exclusively English point of view.
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