The New Irish ConstitutionAn Exposition and Some ArgumentsEdited on Behalf of The Eighty Club byJ. H. Morgan, M.A.Professor of Constitutional Law at University College, LondonLate Scholar of Balleol College, Oxford“For the later kindness done in season, though small in comparison, may cancel a greater previous wrong”—Thucydides I.42.Hodder And StoughtonLondo, New York, Toronto1912ContentsIntroductionPart I. The New ConstitutionI.—The Constitution: A Commentary.By Professor J. H. MorganII.—Irish Administration Under Home Rule.By Lord MacDonnell of SwinfordIII.—The Judicial Committee And The Interpretation Of The New Constitution.By Sir Frederick PollockIV.—Constitutional Limitations Upon The Powers Of The Irish Legislation.By Sir John Macdonell, C.B., LL.D.V.—Financial RelationsBy Lord WelbyVI.—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.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.Part II. The Statutes Relating to the Relief of Congestion in Ireland.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 ArgumentVIII.—Irish Nationality.By Mrs. J. R. GreenIX.—Ireland As A Dependency.By Professor A. F. PollardX.—Ireland, 1782 And 1912By Lord FitzmauriceXI.—Grattan's Parliament.By G. P. GoochXII.—“The Government Of Ireland In The Nineteenth Century”.By R. Barry O'BrienXIII.—The History Of Devolution.By the Earl of DunravenPart III. Contemporary ViewsXIV.—Irish Nationalism And Liberal Principle.By Professor L. T. HobhouseXV.—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.Footnotes
The New Irish ConstitutionAn Exposition and Some ArgumentsEdited on Behalf of The Eighty Club byJ. H. Morgan, M.A.Professor of Constitutional Law at University College, LondonLate Scholar of Balleol College, Oxford“For the later kindness done in season, though small in comparison, may cancel a greater previous wrong”—Thucydides I.42.Hodder And StoughtonLondo, New York, Toronto1912ContentsIntroductionPart I. The New ConstitutionI.—The Constitution: A Commentary.By Professor J. H. MorganII.—Irish Administration Under Home Rule.By Lord MacDonnell of SwinfordIII.—The Judicial Committee And The Interpretation Of The New Constitution.By Sir Frederick PollockIV.—Constitutional Limitations Upon The Powers Of The Irish Legislation.By Sir John Macdonell, C.B., LL.D.V.—Financial RelationsBy Lord WelbyVI.—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.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.Part II. The Statutes Relating to the Relief of Congestion in Ireland.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 ArgumentVIII.—Irish Nationality.By Mrs. J. R. GreenIX.—Ireland As A Dependency.By Professor A. F. PollardX.—Ireland, 1782 And 1912By Lord FitzmauriceXI.—Grattan's Parliament.By G. P. GoochXII.—“The Government Of Ireland In The Nineteenth Century”.By R. Barry O'BrienXIII.—The History Of Devolution.By the Earl of DunravenPart III. Contemporary ViewsXIV.—Irish Nationalism And Liberal Principle.By Professor L. T. HobhouseXV.—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.Footnotes
The New Irish ConstitutionAn Exposition and Some ArgumentsEdited on Behalf of The Eighty Club byJ. H. Morgan, M.A.Professor of Constitutional Law at University College, LondonLate Scholar of Balleol College, Oxford“For the later kindness done in season, though small in comparison, may cancel a greater previous wrong”—Thucydides I.42.Hodder And StoughtonLondo, New York, Toronto1912
The New Irish Constitution
An Exposition and Some Arguments
Edited on Behalf of The Eighty Club by
J. H. Morgan, M.A.
Professor of Constitutional Law at University College, London
Late Scholar of Balleol College, Oxford
“For the later kindness done in season, though small in comparison, may cancel a greater previous wrong”—Thucydides I.42.
Hodder And Stoughton
Londo, New York, Toronto
1912
ContentsIntroductionPart I. The New ConstitutionI.—The Constitution: A Commentary.By Professor J. H. MorganII.—Irish Administration Under Home Rule.By Lord MacDonnell of SwinfordIII.—The Judicial Committee And The Interpretation Of The New Constitution.By Sir Frederick PollockIV.—Constitutional Limitations Upon The Powers Of The Irish Legislation.By Sir John Macdonell, C.B., LL.D.V.—Financial RelationsBy Lord WelbyVI.—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.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.Part II. The Statutes Relating to the Relief of Congestion in Ireland.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 ArgumentVIII.—Irish Nationality.By Mrs. J. R. GreenIX.—Ireland As A Dependency.By Professor A. F. PollardX.—Ireland, 1782 And 1912By Lord FitzmauriceXI.—Grattan's Parliament.By G. P. GoochXII.—“The Government Of Ireland In The Nineteenth Century”.By R. Barry O'BrienXIII.—The History Of Devolution.By the Earl of DunravenPart III. Contemporary ViewsXIV.—Irish Nationalism And Liberal Principle.By Professor L. T. HobhouseXV.—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.Footnotes