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.