The New Irish Constitution An Exposition and Some Arguments Edited on Behalf of The Eighty Club by J. H. Morgan, M.A. Professor of Constitutional Law at University College, London Late Scholar of Balleol College, Oxford “For the later kindness done in season, though small in comparison, may cancel a greater previous wrong”—_Thucydides I._ 42. Hodder And Stoughton Londo, New York, Toronto 1912 CONTENTS Introduction Part I. The New Constitution I.—The Constitution: A Commentary. BY PROFESSOR J. H. MORGAN II.—Irish Administration Under Home Rule. BY LORD MACDONNELL OF SWINFORD III.—The Judicial Committee And The Interpretation Of The New Constitution. BY SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK IV.—Constitutional Limitations Upon The Powers Of The Irish Legislation. BY SIR JOHN MACDONELL, C.B., LL.D. V.—Financial Relations BY LORD WELBY VI.—The Judiciary, The Police, And The Maintenance Of Law And Order. BY THOMAS F. MOLONY, K.C., HIS MAJESTY’S SECOND SERJEANT-AT-LAW, CROWN COUNSEL FOR DUBLIN. VII.—The Present Position Of The Irish Land Question. BY JONATHAN PIM, K.C. Part I. The Fair Rent Acts and the Land Purchase Acts. Part II. The Statutes Relating to the Relief of Congestion in Ireland. Part III. Statutes Relating to the Provision of Allotments of Land and Dwellings for Agricultural Labourers in Ireland. Part IV. Compulsory Registration of Land in Ireland. Part II. A Historical Argument VIII.—Irish Nationality. BY MRS. J. R. GREEN IX.—Ireland As A Dependency. BY PROFESSOR A. F. POLLARD X.—Ireland, 1782 And 1912 BY LORD FITZMAURICE XI.—Grattan’s Parliament. BY G. P. GOOCH XII.—“The Government Of Ireland In The Nineteenth Century”. BY R. BARRY O’BRIEN XIII.—The History Of Devolution. BY THE EARL OF DUNRAVEN Part III. Contemporary Views XIV.—Irish Nationalism And Liberal Principle. BY PROFESSOR L. T. HOBHOUSE XV.—The Imperial Parliament (I) The State Of Parliamentary Business. BY CECIL HARMSWORTH, M.P. (II) The Tendency Towards Legislative Disintegration. A Review Of The Statute Book. BY H. DE R. WALKER (III) Colonial Forms Of Home Rule. BY SIR ALFRED MOND, BART., M.P. XVI.—Contemporary Ireland And The Religious Question (I) A Catholic View. BY MONSIGNOR O’RIORDAN (II) Catholic Tolerance in Practice. (III) The Papal Decrees. (IV) Some Protestant Views. Footnotes INTRODUCTION