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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
CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I. The New Constitution
I. The Constitution: A Commentary. BY PROFESSOR J. H. MORGAN
II. Irish Administration Under Home Rule. BY LORD MACDONNELL OF
SWINFORD
III. The Judicial Committee And The Interpretation Of The New
Constitution. BY SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK
IV. Constitutional Limitations Upon The Powers Of The Irish
Legislation. BY SIR JOHN MACDONELL, C.B., LL.D.
V. Financial Relations BY LORD WELBY
VI. 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 Argument
VIII. Irish Nationality. BY MRS. J. R. GREEN
IX. Ireland As A Dependency. BY PROFESSOR A. F. POLLARD
X. Ireland, 1782 And 1912 BY LORD FITZMAURICE
XI. Grattan's Parliament. BY G. P. GOOCH
XII. "The Government Of Ireland In The Nineteenth Century". BY R. BARRY
O'BRIEN
XIII. The History Of Devolution. BY THE EARL OF DUNRAVEN
Part III. Contemporary Views
XIV. Irish Nationalism And Liberal Principle. BY PROFESSOR L. T.
HOBHOUSE
XV. 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
INTRODUCTION
A word of explanation seems necessary as to the origin of this work, its
design, and the obligations under which it has laid the Editor. The
Committee of the Eighty Club requested me some few months ago to undertake
the preparation of a book dealing with the Irish question. They did me the
honour of leaving entirely to my discretion both the design of the work
and the choice of the contributors. Of books about Ireland, particularly
of those which wear the livery of political parties, there are enough and
to spare. Most of them are retrospective. I am not insensible to the value
of a historical argument as the design of the second part of this book
sufficiently attests but "few indeed," as Burke has remarked, "are the
partisans of departed tyranny," and it seemed to me more profitable to pay
some attention to the present and the future. The restoration to Ireland
of her Parliament is an event which not only appeals to the imagination of
the historian, but also stimulates the speculation of the jurist, and
invites the assistance of the administrator. I have, therefore, attempted
in the earlier part of this book to secure a sober and dispassionate study
of the new order of government by writers who can speak with the authority
of a life's vocation. Their names need no commendation from me... Continue reading book >>
