The Framework of Home Rule eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 480 pages of information about The Framework of Home Rule.

The Framework of Home Rule eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 480 pages of information about The Framework of Home Rule.

DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN ORDERS OR HOUSES.

After three years or a After two years or a
dissolution question to be dissolution question to be decided by joint vote. decided by joint vote in
                                           joint session.

ESTRICTIONS ON IRISH LEGISLATURE.

1. Imperial Matters.

No power to make laws about—­
Nor with:  the Lord-Lieutenant,
The Crown, War or Peace, Army or conduct as Neutrals, Extradition, Navy, Volunteers or Militia, Trade-marks, nor (for six years) Prize or Booty of War, Treaties, Post Office in or out of Titles, Treason, Naturalization, Ireland.  Trade or Navigation, Lighthouses, etc., Coinage, But Trade within Ireland and Copyright, Patents, Post Office inland Navigation conceded to (except within Ireland).  Ireland.

2. Irish Matters.

No power to make laws for the purpose of_—­

(1) Establishing or endowing (1) Ditto, ditto, but more any religion or imposing explicit and far-reaching. disabilities or conferring privileges on account of religion, or affecting the undenominational constitution of National schools, etc.

(2) Impairing rights or property           (2) Ditto, ditto, or “without
of corporations, without address for        due process of law” and
both Orders and consent of Crown.           compensation.
(3) Depriving anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law in accordance with settled precedents, or denying equal protection of laws, or taking property without just compensation.
(4) Imposing disabilities or conferring privileges on account of birth, parentage, or place of business.
(5) (For three years) respecting relations of landlord and tenant or the purchase and letting of land generally.

IRISH REPRESENTATION IN IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

To cease altogether (except in             Ireland to send 80 members to
the case of a proposed                     Westminster (instead of 103).
alteration of the Home Rule Act).           Peers as before.

EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY.

The Crown, as represented by the Lord-Lieutenant, acting in Irish affairs with the advice of an Irish Cabinet responsible to the Irish Legislature.

POWER OF VETO ON IRISH LEGISLATION.

To be held by Lord-Lieutenant               To be held by Lord-Lieutenant,
(acting normally on the advice              acting on advice of Irish
of Irish Cabinet?), but subject             Cabinet, but subject to
to instructions from Imperial               instructions from Imperial
Government.                                  Government.

FINANCE.

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