scholarly journals The Constitutional and Parliamentary History of Ireland till the Union

1919 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Edward Porritt ◽  
J. G. Swift MacNeil
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Parliamentary History

On Recent Proposals Regarding Habitual Drunkards and other Offenders

1896 ◽  
Vol 42 (176) ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
A. Wood Renton ◽  
D. Yellowlees
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Present Review ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
Legal Administration ◽  
Historical Sketch

Mr. Wood Renton.Viewed from the Legal Standpoint.Within the last two years no less than three Parliamentary Reports, dealing with the problems presented by the familiar phenomena of inebriety and recidivism, have been published,∗ and a measure † designed, and, to a large extent, calculated to carry the main recommendations embodied in these documents into effect, has been read a second time in the House of Lords, under the pilotage of the then head of English legal administration. These facts show that public opinion has at length been thoroughly aroused as to the necessity for fresh legislation on the subject of habitual drunkenness and crime, and render any preliminary historical sketch of the growth of the movement, which is apparently at last on the eve of attaining its objects, superfluous. If there is any member of the medical or legal profession who is still in ignorance of the process by which the problems in question have been brought to the stage of perfect ripeness for legislative solution, he may be referred with confidence to an admirable summary of the Parliamentary history of legislation affecting inebriates by Mr. Legge, the Secretary to the Inebriates Committee, 1891, which forms the 6th appendix to the minutes of evidence taken by that body, and is reproduced, with some additions and alterations, as Appendix M in the evidence taken by the Scottish Committee of 1894, and to the three Parliamentary Reports which have suggested the present review (see note, sup.).

scholarly journals THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT AND PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
MAX SKJÖNSBERG
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

This review article considers the potentially fruitful relationship between the history of political thought and parliamentary history through a survey of recent books on Britain and France. Traditionally, this relationship has not been intimate, as the major historians of political thought have concentrated on linguistic and philosophical contexts, alongside political economy. However, as historians of political thought turn to concepts such as political representation, constitutionalism, party politics, and parliamentarism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it would be beneficial for parliamentary history to play a greater role. In order to place arguments in their non-intellectual contexts effectively, historians of political thought must become more careful analysts of events, institutions, and quotidian politics, as well as broader historiographical contexts, importantly the history of state formation. This review article argues that the development of parliamentarism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is an especially promising area for considering theory and practice in unison.

IV. The History of Poynings' Law : Part I, 1494-1615

1941 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 415-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Dudley Edwards ◽  
T. W. Moody
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Lines ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
The Law ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
Foundation Stone

The enactment, by the Irish parliament of 1494-5, of the measure later known as Poynings' Law had far-reaching effects upon the whole subsequent course of Irish parliamentary history to 1782. Poynings' Law was the foundation-stone of a peculiar system of legislative procedure which made it impossible for the Irish parliament to develop on parallel lines with the parliament of England. It prescribed conditions to be observed by the Irish executive, with regard to the summoning and proceedings of the legislature, which were seldom satisfactory to both parties at the same time, and resulted in protracted attempts by each in turn to have the law altered in accordance with changes in their own character, circumstances and interests. The function and interpretation of the law passed through a number of distinct phases, and it was only in the later phases that it came to be regarded as a hated symbol of the subordination of the Irish parliament.

Parliament and the Governance of Elizabethan England: A Review

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-346
Author(s):  
Norman L. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Parliamentary System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
New Research

For thirty years J. E. Neale’s portrait of the Elizabethan parliaments was the stuff of textbooks. Highly political and bedeviled by puritanical protobolsheviks, the Virgin Queen’s parliaments were painted as the nursery in which the modern parliamentary system, characterized by an organized Opposition, was born. In the last decade, however, Neale’s interpretations have been challenged and overturned, making obsolete most of the histories of Elizabethan England available to students. The purpose of this article is to assess the new research on Elizabethan Parliaments, to summarize what we now know about the role Parliament played in governing England, and to suggest what remains to be done.In order to make sense of the newly emerging history of Elizabeth’s parliaments it is important to recap the working assumptions that dominated the first great era of Elizabethan parliamentary history, the Neale/Notestein age. Much of the recent work on Parliament has been in reaction to these mens’ work.

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