Journeys to England and Ireland

Alexis de Tocqueville

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781138526648
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351510516
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This extraordinary series of observations on England and Ireland complements de Tocqueville's masterpieces on the United States and France in the mid-nineteenth century. These pages are perhaps the most penetrating writings on the spirit of British politics. In effect, as indicated by John Stuart Mill, de Tocqueville was the Montesquieu of the nineteenth century. This is especially the case if one thinks of the present Irish situation. His political acumen reached into the future -which is now our present.

Index¹

¹ I wish to thank Mrs. N. H. Feeny who kindly compiled this Index.

Abrégé de l’histoire d’Angleterre de John Lingard,31 n.

Acton, Lord, 196

Administration and law:

Acts and Bills:

Coercion Bill, 152 and n., 153–4

Corn Laws, 100

Factory Act, 113 and n.

Habeas Corpus, 152 n., 182

Insurrection Act, 192

Irish corporations, Bill for reform of, 177

Local Acts, 90 n., 100, 176 n.

Poor Law, 16, 18, 52–4, 57, 58, 73, 77 and n., 118 and n., 120, 124, 131, 141–2, 152, 175, 180, 205 and n-209

Reform Bill: see Parliament:; Reform

Slavery Bill, 42 and n.

Whiteboys Acts, 148

America, comparison with, 18, 97, 98, 230–2

Anomalies in legislation, 82–3

Centralisation and decentralisation, 14, 16, 17, 23–4, 63, 64, 65–6, 77, 81, 88–9, 92, 95–8, 108–10, 193, 194

Democracy and, 17, 77–8, 80

Despotism and, 17, 77, 194

Industries, decentralisation of: see Trade

Local administration: Local, below

Costs of justice out of reach of poor, 16, 63, 97

France, comparison with, 16, 62, 195

Ireland: see Ireland: Administration

King, and, 71, 93, 114

Law Courts:

Assizes, 138–40, 147–8, 154, 183–5

Central Court, 89

Chancery, Court of, 89, 209

Corporate Courts, 89

King’s Bench, 89, 206, 209 and n.

Knights’ Court or Court of Chivalry, 90 n.

Local Courts, 89–90 and n., 201–2

Marshalsea, Court of, 90 n.

Palace Court at Westminster, 90 n.

Pié Poudre, Court of, 90 n.

Quarter Sessions, 89 and n., 90 n., 103, 206

Stannary Court of Devonshire and Cornwall, 90 n.

Local administration, 61–2, 65–6, 80, 81, 96–7, 108–110, 114 and n., 197–209

Acts of Parliament, 90 n., 100, 176 n.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Journeys to England and Ireland
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• Contents
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• I REFLECTIONS ON ENGLISH HISTORY
• II JOURNEY TO ENGLAND (1833)
• III Journey to England (1835)
• IV JOURNEY TO IRELAND(1835)
• V A POSTSCRIPT: TOCQUEVILLE AND HIS BRITISH FRIENDS
• APPENDICES
• INDEX