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Author: Roy Jenkins
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 338
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Total Pages: 338
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Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-09-28
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1448202876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJenkins' account of the constitutional struggle between the Liberal government of the early twentieth century and the House of Lords. The battle started with the introduction of the People's Budget of 1909 and continued through two general elections until 1911 when the Lords accepted the Parliament bill.
Author: Roy Jenkins
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 338
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Author: Corinne Comstock Weston
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780871692153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of ideological politics in Victorian and Edwardian England centers on a referendal theory promoted by the great Lord Salisbury when he opposed William Gladstone's Liberal gov'ts. It was subsequently carried forward in the form of the referendum by Salisbury's son-in-law and ideological heir, the second Lord Selborne. Salisbury is today recognized as the most successful electorally of Conservative leaders. Selborne, though not as well known to historians, had a high contemporary reputation as an imperial proconsul who had united S. Africa. According to the referendal theory, the House of Lords had a duty to refer disputed legislation to the electorate when the House of Commons, in the lords' judgment, lacked a mandate for the measure in question. That is, the lords' political barometer was not the commons, as Gladstone contended, but the nat. at large. If this proposition prevailed, the lords could freely exercise an independent legislative veto in an age of expanding democracy. Not until the Liberals passed the Parliament Act (1911) were they able to counter the theory effectively. But well before this, Selborne's advocacy of the referendum was challenged by another Conservative leader, Lord Curzon, who had served for a decade as viceroy of India. Their rivalry is one of this study's most provocative and illuminating themes.
Author: Elizabeth Knowles
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-10-26
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0191500542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollow the money Fresh fields and pastures new A good day to bury bad news If the glove doesn't fit you must acquit Brings together a fascinating range of wrongly remembered sayings, popular summaries of original thoughts, and apocryphal or unverifiable comments attributed to a particular person. By revealing what was (and was not) really said, this book celebrates the colour and inventiveness of language change.
Author: Peter Hennessy
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2012-05-29
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1849544328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Distilling the Frenzy, the UK's leading contemporary historian examines the special considerations that apply to writing the history of one's own times, and revisits the grand themes running through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He looks at Britain's persistent impulse to punch well above its weight in the world; at the sustenance of the nuclear weapons policy which has accompanied that impulse; and at the intelligence operations which underpin it. For the human perspective on these huge issues, he applies his trademark blend of scholarship and wit to assess the contrasting styles and achievements of post-war prime ministers from Clement Attlee to David Cameron. As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts (and now a cross-bench peer) Peter Hennessy brings a unique perspective to the question of reform of the House of Lords, that irritation to the body politic once again at the very forefront of political debate. Shot through with a thread of autobiography that gives the book an especial immediacy, Distilling the Frenzy is a major work of contemporary history.
Author: Paschal Scotti
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2006-02
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0813214270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the tradition of the great literary quarterlies, the journal discussed every aspect of human endeavor, and Out of Due Time offers a fine opportunity to view the best of the Catholic mind in an extraordinary period.
Author: Janet P. Morgan
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 280
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Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 678
ISBN-13: 9780415104623
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