The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Volume 1

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Cass, 1892 - 109 pages
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
 

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Table des matières

Effect of the Agitation
58
Causes of want of immediate success of the Platform
69
The Publication of Parliamentary Debates
77
Political Associations
84
The Platform at Elections
90
Platform Speeches of Edmund Burke at Bristol Election 1774
91
The organisation of Agitation
100
The character of the Agitators
107
A National Association
113
Effects of the Agitation
119
CHAPTER IV
126
The new Parliament
134
The influence of the Crown
143
The Coalition Ministry
151
The Yorkshire Meeting
157
Pitts Third Motion on Parliamentary Reform
165
THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE PLATFORM
167
The Riot Act
173
The Law of Seditious Libel
182
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AGITATION
187
The General Election of 1790
188
The Society for Constitutional Information
194
First use of the Platform in Scotland
200
State Prosecutions
210
First Openair Meeting of the Corresponding Society
217
Meeting at Chalk Farm
223
Platform Speech by Henry Yorke at Sheffield
225
Completion of the Rupture of the Whig Party
231
Trial of Henry Yorke for Sedition
239
THE FIRST SUPPRESSION OF THE PLATFORM
241
Meeting at Copenhagen Fields
246
Bill for preventing Seditious Meetings and Assemblies
252
Opposition in ParliamentFoxs Speech
259
Criticism on the Government Policy
265
Westminster Meeting
271
Suppression of the Platform
277
Review of its Progress
285
Pitts Platform Speeches
292
Distress and Luddite Disturbances in 181112
343
CHAPTER IX
350
The Corn Law of 1815
355
The Platform and the Property Tax
361
Defeat of the Government
369
A Meeting at Westminster
375
The Platform a safeguard against disturbances
381
The attempted Insurrection in London
387
Treatment by Parliament of the Petitions
393
Report of Secret Committee of the House of Lords
399
Seditious Meetings Act
405
Bamford on Platform Orators
412
Attempt to suppress petitioning by prosecution in Law Courts
419
The Nottingham Rising
425
CHAPTER X
431
The Platformhow far used by nonCabinet Ministers
439
County contested Elections
447
Real effect of the Platform at General Elections
453
Summary of Position of Platform at General Elections
461
The Platform reviving
467
Meeting at Smithfield London
474
The Platform on Peterloo
485
Dismissal of Lord Fitzwilliam Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire W R
494
Government Papers on the state of the Country
501
Canning on Platform Agitation
509
The Law as regarded Public Meetings
517
State Prosecutions Hunt Bamford Knight Sir C WolseleyThe
523
THE PLATFORMS PROGRESS UNDER GEORGE III
529
The progress of Knowledge in the Country
535
The insufficiency of Parliament
542
Deficiencies in organisation
548
THE EMANCIPATION OF THE PLATFORM
553
The Cato Street Conspiracy
555
Democratising influence of the Royal conduct
564
Attempt to obtain Repeal of the Seditious Meetings Prevention Act
566
Description of a County Meeting in 1822
572
A Foreign Secretarys Platform Speech
581
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Henry Lorenzo Jephson
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TitreThe Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Volume 1
Islam and the Muslim World
Reprints of economic classics
The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Henry Lorenzo Jephson
AuteurHenry Lorenzo Jephson
Éditionréimprimée
ÉditeurCass, 1892
Original provenant del'Université du Michigan
Numérisé22 nov. 2008
ISBN0714622648, 9780714622644
Longueur109 pages
  
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