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England's Case Against Home Rule

England's Case Against Home Rule

Dicey, Albert Venn

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General Political Science

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ISBN10: 1459048776
ISBN13: 9781459048775
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.39 Width: 9.00 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...but it gives a definition of the objects proposed to himself by a genuine Home.Euler which is sufficiently definite for the ends of my argument. Home Eule is, for our present purpose, Federalism. We may, therefore, assume that it involves the adoption throughout the present United Kingdom of a constitution in principle, though not in detail, like that of the United States. The United Kingdom would, if the distinguished Home Euler's proposals were adopted, be transformed into a confederacy; the different States, say Great Britain and Ireland, or England, Scotland, and Ireland, would bear to the whole Union the same relation which Virginia and New York bear to the United States; they would bear towards each other the same relation which Virginia bears to New York, or which they both bear towards Massachusetts. Such a constitution has, it must be at once admitted, no necessary connection with Eepublicanism. The King or Queen of England for the time being would occupy the position of a hereditary president; this arrangement would, as Mr. Butt seems to have perceived, increase rather than diminish the authority of the Crown. It must, on the other hand, be noted that Federalism necessarily involves the formation of a new constitution, not for Ireland only, but for the whole of the United Kingdom. It is necessary to insist upon this point For half the fallacies of the arguments for Home Eule rest upon the idea that Home Eule is a matter affecting Ireland alone. 'Irish Federalism/ the title of a pamphlet by Mr. Butt, is a term involving something like selfcontradiction. The misnomer is curious and full of instruction. Whoever wishes to understand the relation of Federalism to the English Constitution and to English interests must give some attention to...

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