Democracy and Liberty. William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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СКАЧАТЬ And of 1870—Its merits and demerits

       Paucity of leases and tenants' improvements—How viewed in Ireland

       Rents in Ireland before 1870 not generally extortionate

       But such rents did exist, and most tenancies were precarious

       The Act of 1881

       Absolute ownership of land under the Incumbered Estates Act

       Circumstances under which this Act had been car ried—Its nature

       It guaranteed complete ownership under a parliamentary title

       Confiscation of Landlord Rights by the Act of 1881

       The purchased improvements

       Fixity of tenure given to the present tenant

       Which could not honestly be done without compensating the owner

       Inseparable rights of ownership destroyed

       The New Land Court and its proceedings

       ‘Judicial decisions’. .

       Rights of the Legislature over landed property—Mill

       Dishonest character of Irish land legislation

       The defence of the Act of 1881

       Misconception of its effects

       The language of Mr. Gladstone

       The Act failed to pacify Ireland—Effects of the Home Rule agitation

       The Land Act of 1887

       Tendency of subversive principles in legislation to grow

       Landlord claim for compensation

       Effects of the land legislation on Irish capital and contracts

       On the ultimate position of tenants

       Moral effects of this legislation

       The Evicted Tenants Bill

       The worst form of robbery, legal robbery

       Dangers of the Irish precedent

       Mr. George's comparison of Irish and American landlordism

       Where should State intervention stop?

       Other Attacks on Property

       Theories of Mr. George

       Mill's doctrine of the ‘unearned increment’

       English land no longer the source of English food

       Attacks on national debts

       On mining royalties

       On literary property

       Nationalisation of railroads, &c

       Cautions in dealing with such question—Is democracy suited to the task?

       The worship of majorities

       Old and New Jesuitism

       Influence of philosophical speculation on politics

       Character in public life—How far democratic election secures it

       The Home Rule alliance—Compared with the coalition of North and Fox

       Effects of the lowering of the suffrage on political morality

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