Fifty Years of the English Constitution, 1830-1880

Longmans, Green, and Company, 1880 - 495 pages

Historical Method of Study	1

Organic unity of the Constitution	11

Indirect initiation of money grants by the Upper House	21

Mr Grote on the Ballot	41

Early history of representation	47

THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT	48

Lord Macaulay on Canvassing	53

Necessary effect of Minority Representation on the character	60

Mr Gladstones account of the action of the Peelites note	259

The Crown and its Ministers	266

Lord Palmerstons theory of the position of Foreign Minister	279

Its nonassumption by the present Sovereign	308

Royal direction of foreign policy	315

His dread of the doctrine of the Sovereigns irresponsibility	322

13	330

The Ministers of the Crown and Parliament	336

Party Government	66

Peel on the limits of party loyalty	73

Right of the House to punish for contempt	83

Supply	96

Home Legislation	103

Endowed Schools reform	115

Principles of recent economic legislation	121

Public Health Acts	146

The Canadian Constitution	152

The Victorian Legislature	161

Territorial jurisdiction of Colonial Legislatures	167

Authority of Parliament over Colonies having no Constitution	173

Mr Disraeli on the paramount importance of Foreign Affairs	179

The Fugitive Slave Circulars	195

Recognition of International Law in recent Acts of Parlia	201

Shipbuilding for belligerents	207

The Royal Titles Bill	215

The Crown Lands and the Civil List	216

11	217

The Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall	223

Mr Gladstone on the provision for Members of the Royal	229

Demand of Sir Robert Peel for changes in the Household	235

Title of the Prince	241

The Princes view of his position as Consort	247

Suggestions of the Prince to Lord Aberdeen	253

Practice of questioning Ministers	343

PAGE	349

Considerations competing with those of party allegiance	350

Comment of Mr Bouverie	357

Remedies to be sought for the injuries produced by a lapse	363

Recent revival of interest in foreign policy	367

Risk of the acquiescence of the Cabinet in a policy dictated	373

Purchase of the Suez Canal Shares	382

Absence of any Parliamentary check on such financial under	391

System of powers and checks provided by the Act	397

Organisation of Government in Hudsons Bay	403

Professor Maurice on the Nation and the Empire	409

Position of the Governors of Crown Colonies	415

CHAPTER IV	422

Appointment of Stipendiary Magistrates	427

Definition of crimes	439

Danger to private rights from a highlyorganised police	448

Liberty of the subject as connected with Civil Law adminis	455

Consequences of trespasses by the State on personal liberty	461

Parliament the scene of Constitutional change	468

Constitutional change determined by the popular will	475

Duties of Government to Parliament in respect of foreign	478

Debates on petitions	480

The Houses as they were and	481

Title	Fifty Years of the English Constitution, 1830-1880 Issues 43810-43815 of 19th-century legal treatises Making of modern law
Author	Sheldon Amos
Publisher	Longmans, Green, and Company, 1880
Original from	University of Minnesota
Digitized	17 Sep 2012
Length	495 pages

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