This volume covers the interaction of society – the people, groups and organisations that made it up – with the constitution. It includes documents generated by working class and middle-class reform campaigners; advocates of votes for women; and people of diverse outlooks on matters of religious faith.
This volume covers the interaction of society – the people, groups and organisations that made it up – with the constitution. It includes documents generated by working class and middle-class reform campaigners; advocates of votes for women; and people of diverse outlooks on matters of religious faith. The volume presents accounts of efforts by the authorities to subdue or resist dissent. It contains documents produced by senior politicians depicting their engagement with the constitution. It also includes evidence pertaining to the rise of mass political parties and other organisations with a role in the operation of the constitution.
Volume II: People, Parties and Politicians
General Introduction
Volume 2 Introduction
Part
1. Perspectives
1. Mary Woolstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
2. Lord Byron, Framework Bill
3. Alfred Tennyson, You Ask Me Why, Tho Ill at East
4. Karl Marx, The British Constitution
5. Benjamin Disraeli, speech at Crystal Palace, 24 June 1872
6. William Morris, Concerning Government
7. J. A. Hobson, The Crisis of Liberalism: New Issues of Democracy
Part
2. Campaigns and groups
8. Society for Constitutional Information
9. The London Corresponding Societys Regulations
10. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Masque of Anarchy,
11. Thomas Duncombe, The Peoples Charter Petition
12. Address of the Committee to the People of England, Administrative Reform
Association
13. Charles Watts, Secularism in its Various Relations
14. Christabel Pankhurst, The Militant Methods of the NWSPU
15. Chrystal Macmillan, The Struggle for Political Liberty
Part
3. Representation
16. Admission of Baron de Rothschild
17. Sir Mancherjee Bhownaggree, Indian Taxation
18. Viscountess (Nancy) Astor, Liquor Traffic (Restrictions)
19. Margaret Wintringham, Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens
20. Shapurji Saklatvala, Debate on the Address
21. Margaret Bondfield, Debate on the Address
22. Eleanor Rathbone, Housing (Revision of Contributions) Bill
23. Marion Phillips, Annual Holiday Bill
Part
4. Rights and freedoms
24. Charles James Fox, Religious Liberty,
25. A Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, 1794
26. The Case of Wolf Tone,
27. Combination Act 1800
28. Richard Sheridan, Standing Order for the Exclusion of Strangers
29. Sir Samuel Romilly, Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill
30. Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts 1828
31. Roman Catholic Emancipation Act, 1829
32. Edward Lytton Bulwer, Newspaper Stamp Duties
33. Charles Bradlaugh, Public Meetings in the Metropolis
34. (Industrial action) Taff Vale Case, decision of Mr. Justice Farewell
35. Aliens Act, 1905
36. Lord Loreburn, Trade Disputes Bill
37. Cinematograph Act, 1909
38. Official Secrets Act, 1911
39. Defence of the Realm Act, 1914
40. Emergency Powers Act, 1920
41. Report of the Broadcasting Committee
42. Ellen Wilkinson, Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill
Index
Professor Andrew Blick is Head of the Department of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at Kings College London, UK.
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