Corn laws
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also in the atlas: Corn Laws the object
English corn laws · protecting corn-laws · the Corn Laws · the corn laws
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Protective tariff legislation on grain, criticized by Cobden as an instrument of aristocratic government.
The colonies, army, navy, and church are, with the corn laws, merely accessories to our aristocratic government.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
English legislation restricting grain importation to protect landlords' rents, used throughout as the closest comparative analogue to American protecting-duty laws.
And an enhancement of grain by the protecting corn-laws, £24,578,000.
In computing the evil inflicted by our protecting-duty laws, that inflicted by the English corn laws will reflect much probability upon our conjectures.
However this may be, it is evident that the English corn laws, bad as they are, may be defended by one argument, of which our protecting-duty laws cannot avail themselves;