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  Home Rule Act 1914 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1640
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 Devolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Devolution or home rule is the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a state to government at national, regional or local level.
The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British politics at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
The home rule demands of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century differed from earlier demands for Repeal by Daniel O'Connell in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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 Multitext - Home Rule
The vagueness of the term Home Rule was useful politically and it enabled people of many political hues to attach their own meaning to it.
In the wake of the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland (1869) the Home Rule League attracted significant support from disillusioned members of the Protestant middle and upper classes who felt that their interests were not being protected in Westminster.
The Buckingham Palace Conference in July 1914 failed to reach a settlement and after the outbreak of the First World War in August, Asquith secured from the Irish parties an agreement that the implementation of the Home Rule Act would be suspended until the war was over.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Government of Ireland Act 1914   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Parliament Act 1911 was passed in which the Lords agreed to a curtailment of their powers.
Now they had no powers over finance bills and their unlimited veto was replaced with a veto which lasted two years, if the House of Commons passed a bill in the third year and was then rejected by the Lords it would still become law.
In 1914 the bill passed the Commons on 25 May by a majority of 77 and this time due to the Parliament Act 1911 it did not need the Lords consent and the bill was awaiting royal assent when World War I broke out.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Government-of-Ireland-Act-1914   (525 words)

  
 Home Rule and Ireland
Home Rule came to dominate domestic British politics in the era 1885 to the start of World War One.
Home Rule effectively started in Ireland in 1870 but in British politics, Gladstone was converted to it in the 1880's.
Home Rule was the name given to the process of allowing Ireland more say in how it was governed – freeing them from the rule of London and thus appeasing those in Ireland who wanted Ireland to have more home derived power.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /home_rule_and_ireland.htm   (1048 words)

  
 FRE - Notes to Rule 606 (LII 2004 ed.)
As proposed by the Court, Rule 606(b) limited testimony by a juror in the course of an inquiry into the validity of a verdict or indictment.
The rule passed by the House embodies a suggestion by the Advisory Committee of the Judicial Conference that is considerably broader than the final version adopted by the Supreme Court, which embodies long-accepted Federal law.
Rule 606(b) deals with juror testimony in an inquiry into the validity of a verdict or indictment.
www.law.cornell.edu /rules/fre/ACRule606.htm   (1547 words)

  
 The FTC Act
''Acts to regulate commerce'' means subtitle IV of title 49 and the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.
In determining whether an act or practice is unfair, the Commission may consider established public policies as evidence to be considered with all other evidence.
If a rule is issued, such violation shall be treated by the Commission as a violation of a rule under section 57a of this title regarding unfair or deceptive acts or practices.
www.stolaf.edu /people/becker/antitrust/statutes/ftc.html   (1255 words)

  
 Home Rule Act 1914 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Government of Ireland Act 1914, more generally known as the Third Home Rule Act (or Bill) or the (Irish) Home Rule Act 1914, was an Act of Parliament passed by the British House of Commons in May 1914 which granted Ireland national self-government within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
In 1914, the Bill passed the Commons on 25 May by a majority of 77 and this time, due to the Parliament Act, it did not need the Lords' consent.
The Act eventually received Royal Assent in September 1914 as World War I was breaking out, but was suspended for the duration of what was expected to be a very short war.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Home_Rule_Act_1914   (2174 words)

  
 Irish Parliamentary Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Each member was required to swear an oath to sit, act and vote with the party, one of the first instances of a whip in western politics.
Following the December 1910 general election and the passing of the Parliament Act limiting the veto power of the Lords, the party subsequently achieved Home Rule, which promised national self-government under the Third Home Rule Act 1914.
The party had above all (prior to 1914) contributed in its prime to the political maturity of the nation and to the transformation of its society.
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 Republic_of_Ireland
The constitution provides that the name of the state is "Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland." However, the state is sometimes referred to as the "Republic of Ireland", in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland.
The name Republic of Ireland came into use after the Republic of Ireland Act defined it as the official description of the state in 1949 (the purpose of the act being to declare that the state was a republic rather than a form of constitutional monarchy).
On 1 April 1949 the Republic of Ireland Act declared a republic, with the functions previously given to the King given instead to the President of Ireland.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/re/republic_of_ireland.html   (3924 words)

  
 The Clayton Act
Nothing in this Act shall prevent a cooperative association from returning to its members, producers, or consumers the whole, or any part of, the net earnings or surplus resulting from its trading operations, in proportion to their purchases or sales from, to, or through the association.
Nothing in the Act approved June 19, 1936, known as the Robinson-Patman Antidiscrimination Act, shall apply to purchases of their supplies for their own use by schools, colleges, universities, public libraries, churches, hospitals, and charitable institutions not operated for profit.
The several district courts of the United States are invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this Act, and it shall be the duty of the several United States attorneys, in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
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 Home Rule
Parnell became president of the Land League, but he was dissatisfied with Gladstone's Land Act of 1881 and his provocative language resulted in imprisonment in Dublin and suppression of the league.
A new Home Rule Bill, introduced in 1912, was rejected by the Lords, and became law in 1914.
With the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 it was agreed that this Government of Ireland Act should not be implemented until the war was over but by 1918 much had changed.
www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/events/dates/homerule.shtm   (663 words)

  
 The Home Rule Crisis 1910 - 1914   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He believed that Ireland would be worse off with Home Rule and hoped that opposition in Ulster would kill the bill for the whole of the country.
A propaganda campaign began in Britain to convince the electorate that Home Rule was unjust and that Ulster Unionists were serious in their determination to remain part of the UK.
The same month the Home Rule bill passed the Commons and it was due to become law in September.
www.historyhome.co.uk /peel/ireland/homerule.htm   (2447 words)

  
 History of England, The 20th Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The war against British rule then began, lasting until December 1920 when atrocities and counter atrocities by both sides (not only those committed by the infamous "Black and Tans.") finally led to the Government of Ireland Act.
A basic British condition was that the six counties of Northern Ireland, mainly Protestant (who equated Home Rule with Rome Rule) should not be coerced into a united Ireland, the other 32 counties, mainly Catholic.
While domestic policies still had to find a way out of the unemployment mess, it was vainly hoped that the League of Nations would keep the peace, and while the aggressive moves by Germany, Italy and Japan may not have been totally ignored in Westminster, their implications were not fully grasped.
www.britannia.com /history/nar20hist3.html   (2377 words)

  
 Troubled Times
The 1914 Home Rule Bill was technically on the statute book and the government was required to come up with a decision on whether to scrap it or put it into operation.
The 1914 Bill had proposed a single parliament for Ireland but with the north or part of the north to be excluded.
Clark acted in close liaison with the leaders of the UVF and with no pretence that the new force would be anything other than the UVF in different uniforms.
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 Home Rule Act 1914   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Government of Ireland Act 1914, more generally known as the Third Home Rule Act (or Bill) or the (Irish) Home Rule Act 1914, was an Act of Parliament passed by the British House of Commons in May 1914 which sought to give Ireland internal self-government within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Since the Act of Settlement, no Catholic had ever been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the head of the British government in a country that was 75% Catholic.
New British prime minister David Lloyd George responded by replacing the never-implemented Home Rule Act 1914 by a new (and final) law, the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which partitioned Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, each with a bicameral legislature and an executive presided over by a shared royal representative, the Lord Lieutenant.
home-rule-act-1914.ask.dyndns.dk   (1286 words)

  
 marnanel: The Parliament Act 1911
The Welsh Church Act 1914, which said that Wales would no longer have a state religion (instead of its being Anglican/Episcopal).
The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000, which said that the age of consent should be equal for homosexual and heterosexual activity (at sixteen).
The idea is that when Parliament passed the 1911 Act, it delegated some of its powers to part of itself.
marnanel.livejournal.com /638638.html   (838 words)

  
 Devolution in TutorGig Encyclopedia
This demand led to the eventual introduction of four Irish Home Rule Bills, of which only the last two were approved by the British Parliament, and only the final one was enacted: the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
This Act created the parliaments of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland — although the latter did not in reality function and most of Ireland became the Irish Free State in 1922 after the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
The Welsh Assembly (as a consequence of the Government of Wales Act) possesses the power to determine how the government budget for Wales is spent and administered.
www.tutorgig.com /ed/devolution   (1190 words)

  
 Politics.ie :: View topic - Home Rule Act versus 1921 Treaty
And it got me trying to remember what were the major differences, in terms of legislative authority, independence, symbols, etc between the Home Rule Bill of 1914, the ultimate Home Rule Act of 1919, and the Treaty of 1921.
Neither the Home Rule Act 1914 nor the Government of Ireland Act 1920 would have conferred control of taxation, defence, foreign-policy or even the RIC and DMP to the Southern state.
(3) Any order, rule or regulation made in Pursuance of, or having the force of, an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom shall be deemed to be a provision of an Act within the meaning of this section.
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 The Liberals and the Great War, 1914-18 - Dr Michael Lynch
The working principles on which the Liberal party had been based may be broadly summarised as peace, non-intervention in foreign affairs, financial economy, free trade, social reform, home rule for Ireland and the preservation of the liberty of the individual.
The suspension for the duration of the war of the Home Rule Act, together with the severity of the government's crushing of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, had indicated that the Liberals were far from solving the Irish question.
They argue that the impressive feature of the Liberals in 1914 was not their weakness but their strength; after all, they had successfully survived all the challenges that had confronted them since 1908.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~semp/liberals.htm   (2936 words)

  
 Home Rule Act 1914 Encyclopedia Article @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
With the outbreak of what was oxpected to be a short Great War in August 1914, loomong civil war in Ireland was averted.
The Dail unrealistically refused to negotiate any understanding with London and abstained from attending Westminster, thereby abandoning Ulster and its Catholic Nationalists to their fate, firing in county Tipperary the first shots of the Anglo-Irish War fought between 1919 and 1921.
Gladstone's Irish Home Rule speech (beseech in favour)
www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Home_Rule_Act_1914   (2684 words)

  
 Ulster history - The 20th century
The price of their support for the government was a third Home Rule bill, which this time could not be blocked by the House of Lords.
The Home Rule bill was given Royal assent, but its operation was suspended until after the end of the war, when it was to be amended to make special provision for Ulster.
After the war, a fourth Home Rule bill, the Government of Ireland Act (1920), proposed two Parliaments: one for Northern Ireland (consisting of counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone) and one for Southern Ireland.
www.cruithni.org.uk /overview/over_11.html   (1364 words)

  
 History of Ireland 1893 - 1914: The Third Home Rule Bill and Ulster's Opposition
For John Redwood, the leader of the 84-seat Home Rule Party, this was an ideal situation to get what he wanted - both sides needed the support of his party to form a government, so he could ask for almost anything he wanted.
On 24/25 April 1914, 25,000 rifles and 3,000,000 bullets were illegally landed by the UVF at Larne, Bangor and Donaghadee, all near Belfast.
Since many Nationalists felt that the Home Rule leader, John Redwood, was ready to compromise Ireland, Redwood was frightened by the size of the IVF.
members.fortunecity.com /irish_history_and_more/past/history/18931914.html   (911 words)

  
 progressivism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Urban reformers were often frustrated, however, because state legislatures, controlled by railroads and large corporations, obstructed the municipal struggle for home rule.
The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed (1906) to eliminate the worst practices of the food industry.
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 reformed the currency system; the Clayton Antitrust Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act (1914) extended government regulation of big business; and the Keating-Owen Act (1916) restricted child labor.
www.bartleby.com /65/pr/progrsvsm.html   (726 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Republic of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It finally seemed possible in 1911 when the House of Lords lost their veto, and John Redmond secured the Third Home Rule Act 1914.
The new Irish Free State was in theory to cover the entire island, subject to the proviso that Northern Ireland (which had been created as a separate entity under the Government of Ireland Act 1920) could opt out and choose to remain part of the United Kingdom, which it duly did, to no-one's surprise.
The remaining 26 counties of the island became the Irish Free State, a constitutional monarchy over which the British monarch reigned (from 1927 with the title King of Ireland).
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Republic_of_Ireland   (3538 words)

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