Great Britain
place · 7 works · 10 mentions · 17 anchored passages
England · Britain · British · British Empire · British parliament · United Kingdom · her
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The British kingdom invoked in a hypothetical analogy to the American constitutional compact over taxation for common purposes.
Let us suppose, that a reconciliation had taken place between Great Britain and the colonies, by which precisely the same powers of taxation for the common defence and general welfare had been conceded to the British parliament, the same objects of expense specified, and the same reservations of local and internal government to the colonies made, as are contained in the constitution of the United States.
Or, if our pension list were compared with the pension list of Great Britain, I believe we should be found to have already outstript her in the application of the maxim, “that governments are sovereigns over national property.
It will very much resemble the whig and tory policy of England.
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
The primary nation discussed in the account of the 1815 crisis; dominant industrial and commercial power during the Napoleonic Wars
In 1756 the funded debt of the United Kingdom was little more than £72,000,000, in 1815 it was £800,000,000.
The great European markets close at hand were again open to our trade, and every preparation was made to take full advantage of this great opportunity.
The first important crisis of the nineteenth century occurred under quite exceptional circumstances, and though not entirely confined to Great Britain, this country was chiefly affected by it.
Economics of Socialism
Great Britain, the national context for the academic debate between Socialist and Jevonian economists.
This Press is entirely organised and managed by men of the working class in the interest of the Socialist movement in Great Britain;
Levy, the Secretary of the Circle, kindly sent proofs of the address, with invitations to attend, to the leading Professors of Political Economy in Great Britain, who hold Jevons’s views on Final Utility, some weeks before the evening on which it was delivered.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The British political community, used throughout as the principal modern example for testing Austin's theory of Sovereignty.
The Sovereignty over the North American Colonies of Great Britain had its seat in one place before they became the United States, in another place afterwards;
After the accession of the House of Hanover to the British throne, a certain number of Jacobites and a considerable portion of the Scottish Highlanders habitually disobeyed or disregarded the commands of the British Crown and Parliament, but the bulk of the nation, including no doubt the bulk of the Jacobites themselves, gave to these commands a practical obedience.
A Protest Against Law-Taxes
The country whose recent budget extended taxes on law-proceedings.
They do so in Great Britain:
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Referenced regarding its historical war fought to secure commercial benefits from a comparable population.
Great Britain thought it policy to carry on a seven years’ war against us principally to secure to herself the control and benefits of the commerce of three millions of people and their posterity.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Country cited as a site of recent scholarly publication on Magna Carta.
Monographs and contributions to periodical literature, devoted exclusively to Magna Carta, have been published in France, Germany and the United States of America, as well as in Great Britain;