Corn Laws
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corn laws
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Protectionist tariffs on imported grain, repealed in 1846.
he opposed the corn laws as in themselves immoral, and used language on this point which Cobden possibly might have deemed exaggerated.
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Protective legislation introduced in 1815 to keep up the price of grain; caused serious revolt in London
Even the Corn Laws, which were introduced in 1815 to keep up the price of grain, though the enactment occasioned a serious revolt in London, did not permanently check the growth of wealth;