Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Home Rule for Ireland is a necessity.-a. Incompetence of British Parliament to govern Ireland: Michael Davitt in Forum, V. 334; James Bryce in Handbook of Home Rule, 52; Canon MacColl in Handbook of Home Rule, 18, 119, 120.-b. Parliament must be relieved of Irish legislation in order to attend to home and imperial affairs; James Bryce, Handbook of Home Rule, 31. 39.-c. Coercion is a failure: John Boyle O'Reilly in North American Review, May. 1882; Lord Thring in Handbook of Home Rule, 67, 202. 203; Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 262 pp. 508-509.-d. Refusal...
...From an English standpoint home rule is dangerous and impracticable; Saturday Review for 1886 passim; 19th Century XII, 1024. a. A federation can only be successful when entered into with mutual good feeling; Introduction to England's case against Home Rule. b. A separate parliament would involve endless disputes on National affairs. c. It would set a bad example...
...Home rule cannot satisfactorily settle the essential difficulties of the land question: Fortnightly Review. XLV, 273. LIII, 177. a. The British government being bound in honor to protect the landlords could not allow a hostile Irish parliament to settle the question; Fortnightly XLV. 861; Edinburgh Review. CLIV, 291. b. An Irish parliament would only temporarily settle the question: Dublin University Magazine. LXX, 116; Contemporary Review, XLIX...
...Irish have shown themselves incapable of governing themselves. a. By the failure of the Irish parliament of 1683 and 1782; Quar. Review, vol. 165; p. 500. b. By the recent conduct of the Irish leaders which has been such that no confidence can be placed in them: Fraser LXXXV; 206; Boston Post from...
...annexation of Alsace-Lorraine Bismarck linked the German nation against paying attention to the voice of the people. He declared later that it was a mistake for Alsace-Lorraine to be represented in the Reichstag, for it was not for the sake of inoculating the German parliament with a number of Frenchmen that Alsace Loraine was annexed...