Dickinson Constitutional Documents of the United Kingdom 1782 – 1835

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-3-598-44052-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band Vol. 1, 355 Seiten

Reihe: Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century. Europe.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Dickinson, Harry T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Verfassungsgeschichte, Verfassungsvergleichung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of Contents;5
2;Foreword;7
3;Acknowledgments;9
4;Introduction;11
5;Crewe’s Act (1782);17
6;Clerke’s Act (1782);19
7;Fox’s Libel Act (1792);23
8;The Conspiracy Act (1794);25
9;The Treasonable and Seditious Practices Act (1795);27
10;The Seditious Meetings Act (1795);31
11;The Suppression of Radical Societies Act (1799);41
12;The Act of Union between Britain and Ireland (1800);57
13;The Regency Act (1811);87
14;The Repeal of the Test and Corporation Act (1828);101
15;Roman Catholic Emancipation Act (1829);105
16;The Great Reform Act (England and Wales, 1832);117
17;The Great Reform Act (Scotland, 1832);171
18;The Great Reform Act (Ireland, 1832);221
19;The Municipal Reform Act (1835);247
20;Glossary;345
21;Index;355

Leseproben

The Seditious Meetings Act (1795) (S. 31-32)

36 Geo. III, c. 8 An Act for the more effectually preventing Seditious Meetings and Assemblies (18 December 1795)


WHEREAS Assemblies of divers Persons, collected for the Purpose or under the Pretext of deliberating on Public Grievances, and of agreeing on Petitions, Complaints, Remonstrances, Declarations, or other Addresses, to the King, or to both Houses, or either House of Parliament, have of late been made use of to serve the Ends of factious and seditious Persons, to the great Danger of the Public Peace, and may become the Means of producing Confusion and Calamities in the Nation: Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,

That no Meeting, of any Description of Persons, exceeding the Number of fifty Persons, (other than and except any Meeting of any County, Riding, or Division called by the Lord Lieutenant, Custos Rotulorum, or Sheriff of such County, or a Meeting called by the Convener of any County or Stewartry in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, or any Meeting called by two or more Justices of the Peace of the County or Place where such Meeting shall be holden, or any Meeting of any County, having different Ridings or Divisions, called by any two Justices of any one or more of such Ridings or Divisions,

or any Meeting called by the major Part of the Grand Jury of the County, or of the Division of the County, where such Meeting shall be holden, at their General Assizes or General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, or any Meeting of any City, or Borough, or Town Corporate, called by the Mayor or other Head Officer of such City, or Borough, or Town Corporate, or any Meeting of any Ward or Division of any City or Town Corporate, called by the Alderman or other Head Officer of such Ward or Division, or any Meeting of any Corporate Body,) shall be holden, for the Purpose or on the Pretext of considering of or preparing any Petition, Complaint, Remonstrance, or Declaration,

or other Address to the King, or to both Houses, or either House of Parliament, for Alteration of Matters established in Church or State, or for the Purpose or on the Pretext of deliberating upon any Grievance in Church or State, unless Notice of the Intention to hold such Meeting, and of the Time and Place when and where the same shall be proposed to be holden, and of the Purpose for which the same shall be proposed to be holden, shall be given, in the Names of seven Persons at the least, being Householders resident within the County, City, or Place where such Meeting shall be proposed to be holden, whose Places of Abode and Descriptions shall be inserted in such Notice, and which Notice shall be given by public Advertisement in some public Newspaper usually circulated in the County and Division where such Meeting shall be holden five Days at the least before such Meeting shall be holden, or shall be delivered in Manner hereinafter mentioned, and that such Notice shall not be inserted in any such Newspaper unless the Authority to insert such Notice shall be signed by seven Persons at the least, being Householders resident within the County,

Über Autor(innen)

Der Herausgeber, Horst Dippel, ist Professor für Britische und Nordamerikanische Geschichte an der Universität Kassel.