The Constitutional History of England: Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860 : in Two Volumes, Volumen2

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Crosby and Nichols, 1863

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The Whig ministry of 1806 and the Catholic question
341
CHAPTER XIII
348
Relief to Catholic officers in army and navy 1813 and 1817
356
Bills for amendment of the marriage laws affecting Roman
362
The Catholic claims in 1828
370
The Catholic Relief Act 1829
376
Quakers and others admitted to the Commons on affirmation
382
Claims to be sworn
388
Register of births marriages and deaths
395
Final repeal of penalties on religious worship
402
The first Braintree case
405
Causes adverse to the clergy in presence of dissent
413
Statistics of places of worship
420
The Ecclesiastical Titles bill 1851
426
The patronage question
432
The General Assembly address the queen
439
Resistance to payment of tithes
445
Sir Robert Peels ministry overthrown on the appropriation
453
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
460
Monopoly of electoral rights
466
Mr Pitts India bill 1784
469
Corporations in Ireland
473
CHAPTER XVI
479
The Irish Parliament asserts its independence
485
The convention of Dungannon
491
Liberal measures of 179293
497
Means by which it was accomplished
498
And of the Catholic Relief Act and Parliamentary Reform
508
Canada and other North American colonies
525
Contumacy of Jamaica repressed 1838
531
Colonial democracy
537
PROGRESS OF GENERAL LEGISLATION
547
Merciless character of the criminal code
553
Reformatories
561
Measures for the improvement of the working classes
568
Increase of national expenditure since 1850
574
535
581
Lord Palmerstons second ministry 1859 90
591
The Queens Colleges 458
592
The law of churchrates
595

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Página 168 - ... in direct opposition to the declared sense of a great majority of the nation, and they should be put in force with all their rigorous provisions, if his opinion were asked by the people as to their obedience, he should tell them, that it was no longer a question of moral obligation and duty, but of prudence.
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