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Constitutional law

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 187 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

The Papers of Sir Dingle Foot

Reference Code: GBR/0014/DGFT
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1909 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open (except for a few files which are closed under data protection) for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

The Parliament Act 1911, 1911-07 - 1911-08

Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/2/11
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1911-07 - 1911-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Parliament Act 1911, 1911-10 - 1913-05

Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/2/12
Scope and Contents Papers on the reform of the House of Lords, including: report of the Halsbury Club committee, by 2nd Lord Selborne, Chairman of the committee; notes and circular letter on the formation of the committee by 19th Lord Willoughby de Broke [secretary, earlier Richard Verney]; explanatory memoranda and annotated papers by LSA on the Parliament Bill, the powers of both Houses of Parliament, the constitutional breakdown and need for reform, results of the Parliament Act and arguments against the...
Dates: 1911-10 - 1913-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Thoughts on the Constitution", 1947

Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/58
Scope and Contents

Including: press cuttings of reviews; typescript of text.

Dates: 1947
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Thoughts on the Constitution", 1946 - 1954

Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/59
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with: representatives of Oxford University Press; Sir Carleton Allen, Fellow of University College, University of Oxford (2); John Foster [Commonwealth Relations Office], on amendments to the text (4); Sir Kenneth Wheare, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada; Leonard Moore of Christy and Moore Limited, LSA's literary agents. Also includes: copies of letters from LSA to potential reviewers;...
Dates: 1946 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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(Untitled), 19 Dec 1921

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/118/81-83
Scope and Contents "Notes on the advisability of an early general election" by [Sir Philip Sassoon]. Argues that an early election is in the Government's interests because it is currently enjoying credit for the Irish agreement and the Washington Conference, the business community and tax-payers generally are looking forward to economising measures proposed by the Geddes Committee, the unemployment crisis has been successfully met, and the divisive issue of reform of the House of Lords will arise later. Sent...
Dates: 19 Dec 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/1
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 14 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/2
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the Manchester Guardian on the reaction in Lancashire and Yorkshire to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.

Dates: 14 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/3
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 14 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/4
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 15 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/5
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: letter to the editor approving WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.

Dates: 16 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/6
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 16 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/7
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 16 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/8
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the Liverpool Daily Courier: cartoon attacking WSC's proposal for separate parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the English regions.

Dates: 16 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
 Item

(Untitled), 20 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/9
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the Municipal Journal: reactions by men involved in local government to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.

Dates: 20 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
 Item

(Untitled), 08 Jan 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/32
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 08 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
 Item

(Untitled), 09 Jan 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/33
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 09 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Jan 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/46
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the "Birmingham Gazette and Express": article by Lord Willoughby de Broke criticising WSC's proposals for federalism within the United Kingdom.

Dates: 10 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jan 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/56
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 22 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/61/17
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 16 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Dec] [1913]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/62/124
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: [Dec] [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [Nov] [1933]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/194/110-113
Scope and Contents Notes [by B C Allen, former Chief Whip of the Indian Legislative Assembly] describing the powers of the federal government of the United States in support of WSC's proposal that provincial government in India should be subject to central inspection and arguing that since the constitutions of a number of well-governed European states do not require that all ministers should be members of the legislature it would be inappropriate to impose this restriction on India. Sent with CHAR...
Dates: [Nov] [1933]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 23 Oct 1933

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/195/1-2
Scope and Contents

Unrevised minutes of WSC's evidence to the Joint Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform.

Dates: 23 Oct 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [1933]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/195/55-62
Scope and Contents

Summary of the Government's proposals for Indian constitutional reform.

Dates: [1933]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 22 Feb 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/5-7
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 22 Feb 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.