Constitutional history
Found in 188 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [18] [Jan] [1924]
Cutting from the "Times": letter from Ernest Law to the editor arguing that the Prime Minister should not have the right to advise a dissolution of Parliament in any circumstances or to advise the sovereign who his successor should be. Sent with CHAR 2/137/20.
(Untitled), 02 Nov 1924
Letter from Colonel Charles Swaine (88 St James's Street, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his electoral victory, which would have pleased Sir Ernest Cassel, hoping that WSC will get a suitable government post, and arguing for the reform of the House of Lords so that it can effectually oppose any future Socialist government.
(Untitled), 16 Nov 1926
Resolutions passed by Conservative constituency associations calling on as many ministers as possible to attend the annual conference of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, and urging the Government to introduce legislation to reform trade unions and the House of Lords. Sent with CHAR 2/147/174.
(Untitled), 03 Mar 1926
Circular letter from Edward Campbell, secretary of the Second Chamber Reform Committee, enclosing and commenting on CHAR 2/150/2.
(Untitled), Nov 1925
Reprint from "The Nineteenth Century and After": "The Parliament Act and Second Chamber Reform" by F G Stone. Sent with CHAR 2/150/1.
(Untitled), 05 Jun 1930
Conservative research department memorandum prepared by [Neville Chamberlain] on the use of the referendum.
(Untitled), 05 Jun 1931
Memorandum by [WSC to the Select Committee on Procedure on Public Business] proposing the formation of an "Economic Sub-Parliament". Annotated carbon typescript copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/177/48-50.
(Untitled), [Nov] [1933]
(Untitled), 23 Oct 1933
Unrevised minutes of WSC's evidence to the Joint Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform.
(Untitled), [1933]
Summary of the Government's proposals for Indian constitutional reform.
(Untitled), 06 Feb 1911
(Untitled), 16 Nov 1910
Copy of a letter from [WSC] ([Home Office]) to James Seddon [President of the Shop Assistants' Union] assuring him that the Shops Bill has not been abandoned, but postponed due to the "extraordinary political crisis" [constitutional deadlock between the Liberal Government and the House of Lords]. Unsigned typescript.
Will the Lords Survive?, 1994
Photocopy of a chapter contributed by JEP to the Manorial Society of Great Britain's book "The House of Lords - A Thousand Years of British Tradition".