THE HOUSE OF LORDS: as a Judicial Body: Appellate Jurisdiction Act of 1876. as a Legislative Body: : Contest with the Commons on Paper Duties Repeal. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS: Notions of representation. Transition from class representation to individual representation. (The Ballot Act. The Parliamentary Elections Act. Modern controversies as to the functions of Representatives : 1. Delegacy and Pledges. 2. Representation of Minorities. Political Associations. Party Government:— 1. Its historic origin. 3. Its political expediency. SECTION. II.-PRIVILEGES AND ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS. Avenues of communication between the House and the public :— Petitions. Publication of Proceedings. Exclusion of Strangers. Disciplinary powers of the House : Right of the House to sentence for contempt. Obstruction. General conduct of business in the House: Competing claims of Government and private members: The half-past twelve rule. Private Bills: Their scope and importance. Procedure as to private bills. Analysis. Supply:-Four stages of procedure :- (2.) Committee of Ways and Means. (4.) Committee of Public Accounts. Procedure of the House of Lords. XXV SECTION III.-HOME LEGISLATION. 1. Removal of religious disqualifications:-- Emancipation of Catholics, Protestant Dissenters, and Jews. Abolition of Church-rates. Abolition of University Tests. Abolition of Ecclesiastical Courts of Probate and Divorce. 2. Readjustment of Endowments and Charters :- { (2.) Educational Institutions : University Reform. Endowed Schools Reform. (3.) Endowed Charities. (4.) Municipal Corporations. 3. Economic Legislation, bearing on :— (1.) The Bank of England and other Banks. (2.) Public Companies. (3.) Railways. (4.) Factories. (5.) Taxation and the National Debt. 4. Fresh delimitations of Central and Local Government : The Parish and the Union. Police. Public Health. County Administration. Municipal Corporations. Education. SECTION IV.-GOVERNMENT OF DEPENDENCIES. 1. Colonial Constitutions, and Confederation of Colonies. Constitution and Confederation of the Dominion of Canada. Confederation of the South African Colonies. Legislation for conquered or ceded Dependencies. Legislation for Dependencies acquired by settlement. Constitution of Victoria : Working of the Victorian Constitution. Territorial limits of the jurisdiction of Colonial Legislatures. 2. Extension of Parliamentary Control over Dependencies not previously subject to it. India: The Regulating Act. The Act of 1833. The Act for the Better Government of India. Fiji, and the Transvaal. 3. Acts of Parliament specially relating to Dependencies. New South Wales and Tasmania. Coast of Africa and the Falkland Islands. India. 4. Inclusion of Dependencies in general Acts of Parliament. Colonial Laws Validity Act. Copyright Act. Documentary Evidence Act. 5. Parliamentary Control of the Executive in its Colonial policy. SECTION V.-FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Foreign policy not initiated in Parliament. (Motion on International Law and Arbitration an exception.) Initiative action of Parliament in 1. Legislation relating to foreigners in British Dominions: (1.) Extradition. (2.) Naturalisation. 2. Legislation relating to British subjects in foreign Dominions : The Foreign Jurisdiction Act. Government of Cyprus. Forced labour in Cyprus. The Fugitive Slave Circulars. Extra-territorial Jurisdiction in India. Slave-trade suppression. Territorial Waters Jurisdiction. 3. Legislation enforcing International Law : Negotiation of Loans with hostile States. SECTION I. CHAPTER III. THE CROWN. PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES AND RELATIONS. True position of the Monarch determined by the history of the Monarchy. Recent action relating to the Crown in its personal character:-1. Provision for a Regency, (1.) in case of the death of King William IV. during the minority of the Princess Victoria. (2.) in case of the Queen's death during the absence of the heir presumptive (the King of Hanover). (3.) in case of the Queen's death during the minority of the heir 2. Definition of the Royal Title:- Royal Titles Bill of 1878. 3. Adjustment of the Royal Income:r Civil List of William IV. The Crown Lands. Private Estates of the Crown. Crown Lands in the Colonies. Civil List of Queen Victoria. The Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall. Grant to the Duchess of Kent as mother of the Sovereign. Grant to the Duke of Connaught on his marriage : Debate on provision for the Royal Family. : 4. Constitution of the Royal Household : Settlement of the Queen's Household. Question as to Ministerial changes in the Household. 5. Position of the Royal Consort: Annuity of the Prince Consort. Precedence of the Prince Consort. Title of the Prince Consort. Offer to the Prince of the Commandership-in-Chief. Action of the Prince as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards. Interference with the Government and the Opposition in Political Correspondence with the Emperor Napoleon. SECTION II.-THE CROWN AND ITS MINISTERS. Uses of the term "Prerogative." Rise of the Cabinet, as an outgrowth of the Privy Council. Origin of the Ministry as the organ of Party Government. Internal Relations of the Cabinet: Modern theories as to unity and responsibility. Conduct of Lord Palmerston as Foreign Secretary in 1851. Controversy between the Lord Chief Baron and the Lord Chan cellor on the secresy of the Privy Council. Relations of the Sovereign and the Cabinet: 1. 2. Modes of selecting and dismissing a Ministry: Present custom. Action taken by King William IV. in 1830-1835. 3. Royal interference with the Cabinet or with individual Ministers: Relations of the Queen and Lord Palmerston. Royal direction of policy during the Crimean War. 4. Liberty of action of the Sovereign apart from the Cabinet: Rumours of royal correspondence during the Crimean War. Royal correspondence during the Afghan and Zulu Wars. |