Lectures on the Relation Between Law and Public Opinion in England During the Nineteenth Century

Albert Venn Dicey

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780878558698
  9781138527102
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351509190
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Law

The famed 1914 edition of this classic is one of the small handful of works that deserve to be read by Americans to understand the 1980s. Indeed, the final three chapters, describing the decline of will and consensus in late Victorian England, stand as a stark, unmistakable reminder that such national decline can happen again. Dicey was the most influential constitutional authority in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Modern politicians have often invoked the phrase "rule of law." So commonplace has it become that few recognize its source in the work of Dicey. Law and Public Opinion in England is written with simplicity, wit and a sense of purpose that marks it as a book apart. It did much more than fortell the decline of empire, it developed the forms in which such decline comes about. In many ways this book represents a pioneering statement on the libertarian tradition as a consequence of rather than rebellion against the legal norms of an advanced civilization. This is a central book for students of society and politics alike.

INDEX

Act of Settlement, 82

Acts: Old Age Pensions Act, 1908, xxxiii;

National Insurance Act, 1911, xxxvi;

Trade Disputes Act, 1906, xliv;

Trade Union Act, 1913, xlviii;

Minimum Wages Acts, xlix ;

Education (Provision of Meals) Act, 1906, xlix ;

Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, 1;

Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908, li;

Finance Act, 1910, li;

Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1829, 11, 12

and note, 28, 29, 105, 204;

Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 1851, 12;

Factory, 28, 29 note, 290 ;

Toleration Act, 1688, 29, 77, 78;

Oaths Act, 1888, 29, 344 note;

Municipal Reform Act, 1836, 30, 118, 187 ;

Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, 30;

Municipal Corporations, 30, 284;

Money-lenders Act, 1900, 34, 45 ;

Divorce Act of 1857, 43, 184, 190, 347, 386, 387 ;

Married Women’s Property, 1870-1893, 43, 387-398 ;

Garotters Act, 1863. 45 ;

Reform Act of 1832, 19, 30, 31, 38, 39, 42, 48, 52, 161, 177, 185-187 ;

Workmen’s Compensation, 1897-1900, 68, 69

note, 283

and note; Felony Act, 1836, 88 ;

Evidence, 90

notes, 206 ;

Judicature, 91, 208, 369 ;

Combination, 95-102, 191-201, 267-273 ;

Six, of 1819, 95. 102-103;

Health and Morals Act, 1802. 103, 108-110;

Union with Ireland Act, 1800, 104;

Marriage, 190, 204, 345-347;

County Court Act, 1846, Sir Thomas Snagge on, 218

note; Ten Hours Act, 232-240;

Railway Companies, 246;

Joint Stock Companies, 1856-1862, 246, 249;

Common Law Procedure, 249, 369 ;

Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866, 249;

Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, 264;

Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, 264 ;

Arbitration, 273-275 ;

Elementary Education, 277-278 ;

Labouring Classes’

Lodging Houses Act, 1851, 286, 291 ;

Housing of the Working Classes, 1890-1900, 286, 291 ;

Public Health, 291

and note; Allotments, 292;

Outdoor Relief (Friendly Societies), 293-294 ;

Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1836 and 1840, 338-343;

Nonconformists’Chapels Act, 1844, 344 note;

Burial Laws Amendment Act, 1880, 348;

Tithe, 1836-1891, 352;

Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Act, 1868, 352 ;

Clerical Subscription Act, 1865, 355;

Clerical Disabilities Act, 1870, 355, 356

note; Irish Church Act, 1869, 356-357 ;

Gaming Act, 1845, 369

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction to Second Edition
• Lecture I: Relation Between Law and Public Opinion
• Lecture II: Characteristics or Law-Making Opinion in England
• Lecture III: Democracy and Legislation
• Lecture IV: The Three Main Currents of Public Opinion
• Lecture V: The Period or Old Toryism or Legislative Quiescence
• Lecture VI: The Period of Benthamism or Individualism
• Lecture VII: The Growth of Collectivism
• Lecture VIII: Period of Collectivism
• Lecture IX: The Debt of Collectivism to Benthamism
• Lecture X: Counter-Currents and Cross-Currents of Legislative Opinion
• Lecture XI: Judicial Legislation
• Lecture XII: Relation Between Legislative Opinion and General Public Opinion
• Appendix
• Index