The New Irish Constitution: An Exposition and Some Arguments
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Chapters (82)
- Introduction
- Part I. The New Constitution
- I.—The Constitution: A Commentary. By Professor J. H. Morgan
- The Supremacy of the Imperial Parliament.
- The Powers of the Irish Parliament
- Constitutional Restrictions.26
- The Argument Against Restrictions.
- The Executive Veto.
- Exempted Powers.
- The Executive
- The Irish Legislature
- Irish Representation in the House of Commons56
- The Further Extension of Home Rule
- Scottish Home Rule
- II.—Irish Administration Under Home Rule. By Lord MacDonnell of Swinford
- III.—The Judicial Committee And The Interpretation Of The New Constitution. By Sir Frederick Pollock
- IV.—Constitutional Limitations Upon The Powers Of The Irish Legislation. By Sir John Macdonell, C.B., LL.D.
- V.—Financial Relations99 By Lord Welby
- VI.—The Judiciary, The Police, And The Maintenance Of Law And Order. By Thomas F. Molony, K.C., His Majesty's Second Serjeant-at-Law, Crown Counsel for Dublin.
- (1) The Judiciary
- (2) The Police
- (3) Law and Order
- VII.—The Present Position Of The Irish Land Question. By Jonathan Pim, K.C.
- Part I. The Fair Rent Acts and the Land Purchase Acts.121
- Two Classes of Occupiers of Land in Ireland—Economic and Uneconomic.
- Confusion of Treatment of Occupiers of Economic and Uneconomic Holdings.
- Relation of Landlord and Tenant in Ireland prior to 1860.
- Position of Tenants under the Common Law as regards Eviction—in the case of Leaseholds.
- In the Case of Yearly Tenancies.
- The Irish Ejectment Code—how it Pressed against the Tenant.
- Facilities given for Evicting Leaseholders.
- Facilities given for Evicting Yearly Tenants.
- The Land Act of 1860 (Deasy's Act).
- Position of the Irish Tenant from 1860-1870.—The Devon Commission reported (1844) that farm Improvements are made by the Tenants.
- Effects of Political and Economic Changes on the Relations between Landlord and Tenant during the Nineteenth Century.
- Attempts at Reform.—Land Act of 1870.
- Failure of the Act of 1870, Causes of.
- The Land Act of 1881.
- Differences between the English and the Irish Land Systems.
- Irish Land Purchase and the extent to which it has been carried on by State aid.
- Irish Church Act, 1869.
- Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870.
- The Act of 1881 (the “Gladstone Act”).
- The Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885 (the “Ashbourne Act”).
- Purchase of Land Acts, 1891 and 1896 (the “Balfour Acts”).
- Irish Land Act, 1903 (the “Wyndham Act”).
- The Evicted Tenants Act, 1907.
- Irish Land Act, 1909 (Mr. Birrell's Act).
- Table of Number of Purchasers and Amount of Advances under the various Land Purchase Acts
- Part II. The Statutes Relating to the Relief of Congestion in Ireland.
- Two Classes of Occupiers in Ireland—Establishment of the Congested Districts Board
- Statutes Dealing with Congestion
- Part III. Statutes Relating to the Provision of Allotments of Land and Dwellings for Agricultural Labourers in Ireland.
- Part IV. Compulsory Registration of Land in Ireland.
- Part II. A Historical Argument
- VIII.—Irish Nationality. By Mrs. J. R. Green
- IX.—Ireland As A Dependency. By Professor A. F. Pollard
- X.—Ireland, 1782 And 1912123 By Lord Fitzmaurice
- XI.—Grattan's Parliament. By G. P. Gooch
- XII.—“The Government Of Ireland In The Nineteenth Century”. By R. Barry O'Brien
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- XIII.—The History Of Devolution. By the Earl of Dunraven
- Part III. Contemporary Views
- XIV.—Irish Nationalism And Liberal Principle. By Professor L. T. Hobhouse
- XV.—The Imperial Parliament
- (I) The State Of Parliamentary Business. By Cecil Harmsworth, M.P.
- (II) The Tendency Towards Legislative Disintegration. A Review Of The Statute Book. By H. de R. Walker
- (III) Colonial Forms Of Home Rule. By Sir Alfred Mond, Bart., M.P.
- XVI.—Contemporary Ireland And The Religious Question
- (I) A Catholic View. By Monsignor O'Riordan
- (II) Catholic Tolerance in Practice.
- (III) The Papal Decrees.
- (IV) Some Protestant Views.
- (1) A Church Of Ireland View. By Canon Courtenay Moore, M.A.
- (2) A Presbyterian View, By Rev. J. B. Armour, M.A.
- (3) A Nonconformist View. By Rev. W. Crawford, M.A.
- Footnotes
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