Documents on the Nineteenth Century United Kingdom Constitution

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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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This volume considers the UK as a state that was both internally differentiated and placed a premium on its external relations and world power. It contains documents dealing with the implications of the multinational status of the UK. It contains material relevant to the constitutional impact of the UK on the outside world.

Contenu

Volume IV: Nations and Empire

General Introduction

Volume 4 Introduction

Part 1. Independence, Revolution and War

1. American Declaration of Independence

2. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

3. Mary Woolstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men

4. Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, Part One

5. Hannah More, Village Politics

Part 2. Imperial and External Policy

6. Olaudah Equiano, Equianös Travels

7. An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade

8. Te Tiriti O Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi

9. Sir William Molesworth, `The Australian Colonies

10. William Gladstone, `New Zealand Government Bill

11. Report on the Indian Civil Service

12. Government of India Act, 1858

13. Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865

14. John Seeley, `The United States of Europe

15. Henry Richard, `National Engagements

16. Report of the Special Committee of the League, Imperial Federation

17. Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900

18. Peace of Vereeniging

19. Arthur Ponsonby, `Parliament and Foreign Policy

20. Mahatma Gandhi, statement at trial Ahmadabad

Part 3. Nations and Union

21. An Act for the Union with Ireland, 1800

22. An Act for Restoring Order in Ireland, 1803

23. Daniel O Connell, speech at Mullaghmast, 1 October 1843

24. Isaac Butt, `Home Government for Ireland: Irish Federalism! Its Meaning, Its Objects and Its Hopes

25. Secretary for Scotland Act, 1885

26. W. E. Gladstone, `Government of Ireland Bill

27. Thomas Waring, `Government of Ireland Bill

28. Charles Parnell, `Government of Ireland Bill

29. Joseph Chamberlain, `Government of Ireland Bill

30. W. Mitchell, `Home Rule for Scotland

31. W. Llewelyn Williams, `Cymru Fydd: Its Aims and Objects

32. James Joyce, `The Death of Parnell

33. Government of Ireland Act, 1914

34. Welsh Church Act, 1914

35. 1916 Proclamation (of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic)

36. Major Edward Wood, `Creation of Subordinate Legislatures

37. Government of Ireland Act, 1920

38. Anglo Irish Treaty, Articles of Agreement

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