Constitutional law
Found in 187 Collections and/or Records:
The Papers of Sir Dingle Foot
The material held at Churchill Archives Centre deals with Sir Dingle's career as a Liberal and then a Labour Member of Parliament, as well as with his distinguished position in the legal profession, particularly with regard to Commonwealth countries and with his literary skills.
The Parliament Act 1911, 1911-07 - 1911-08
Press-cuttings and typescripts of letters written by LSA and others including 1st Lord Curzon to the Times on the constitutional crisis arising from reform of the House of Lords.
The Parliament Act 1911, 1911-10 - 1913-05
"Thoughts on the Constitution", 1947
Including: press cuttings of reviews; typescript of text.
"Thoughts on the Constitution", 1946 - 1954
(Untitled), 19 Dec 1921
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912
Cutting from the "Daily Chronicle" supporting WSC's defence of the Insurance Act but rejecting his proposal for regional parliaments in England as unhelpful with regard to the problem of Irish Home Rule.
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Manchester Guardian on the reaction in Lancashire and Yorkshire to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Daily News and Leader on the reaction in London, the Midlands, Lancashire and Yorkshire to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.
(Untitled), 15 Sep 1912
Cutting from the People: cartoon and article ridiculing WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England; report of WSC's re-organisation of the Admiralty and his changes to Navy discipline.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: letter to the editor approving WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: editorial criticising WSC's speech on "English Federalism" as it relates to Irish Home Rule but approving of it as it relates to English local government.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Manchester Guardian on the support of Sir Henry Manton, a leading Birmingham Liberal, for WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Liverpool Daily Courier: cartoon attacking WSC's proposal for separate parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the English regions.
(Untitled), 20 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Municipal Journal: reactions by men involved in local government to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1912
Cutting from the "Belfast News-Letter" criticising WSC's advocacy of Home Rule for Ireland as part of a general federal scheme for the United Kingdom.
(Untitled), 09 Jan 1912
Cutting from the "Globe" contrasting WSC's present advocacy of federalism with his adoption of the opposite principle when helping to frame the constitution of South Africa.
(Untitled), 10 Jan 1912
Cutting from the "Birmingham Gazette and Express": article by Lord Willoughby de Broke criticising WSC's proposals for federalism within the United Kingdom.
(Untitled), 22 Jan 1912
Cutting from the "Huddersfield Examine" [Yorkshire] attacking the Ulster Unionists' declared intention of preventing the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] and claiming that William Gladstone favoured a measure of Home Rule for all parts of the United Kingdom as early as 1866.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Letter from [WSC] to [?] expressing his wish that the question of provincial parliaments for England should be ventilated but that it should not get in the way of Home Rule for Ireland.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1913]
Memorandum by [John Cathcart Wason] on the danger to the Empire posed by the current Home Rule crisis and suggesting that local parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales and, possibly, the English regions on the Canadian and Australian federal model could be the answer. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/62/123.
(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), 22 Feb 1910
Letter from WSC (House of Commons) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: the speeches of [George] Barnes, F E Smith [later Lord Birkenhead], [William] O'Brien, [William] Moore, WSC and Walter Ling on proposals for Parliamentary reform.