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    20th Century · English

    Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England

    A. V. Dicey

    Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England, by A. V. Dicey (1835–1922), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.

    Chapters
    51
    Variants
    51
    Genre
    Law
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Preface to the First Editionprose
    2. 02Preface to the Second Editionprose
    3. 03Introduction to the Second Edition, Aim of Introductionprose
    4. 04(A): Legislative Opinion at the end of the Nineteenth Centuryprose
    5. 05(B): Course of Legislation from Beginning of Twentieth Centuryprose
    6. 06(C): The Main Current of Legislative Opinion from the beginning of the Twentieth Centuryprose
    7. 07(D): Counter-Currents and Cross-Currents of Legislative Opinion from the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuryprose
    8. 08Conclusionsprose
    9. 09Lecture I: The Relation Between Law and Public Opinionprose
    10. 10Lecture II: Characteristics of Law-making Opinion in Englandprose
    11. 11Lecture III: Democracy and Legislationprose
    12. 12I.: The Period of Old Toryism or Legislative Quiescence (1800-1830)prose
    13. 13II.: The Period of Benthamism or Individualism (1825-1870)prose
    14. 14III.: Period of Collectivism (1865-1900)prose
    15. 15(A): State of Opinion (1760-1830)prose
    16. 16(B): Absence of Changes in the Lawprose
    17. 17(C): Why considerable changes took place during the Period of Quiescenceprose
    18. 18(D): Close of the Period of Quiescenceprose
    19. 19Lecture VI: The Period of Benthamism or Individualismprose
    20. 20I.: Legislation is a Science.prose
    21. 21II.: The right aim of legislation is the carrying out of the principle of utility, or, in other words, the proper end ofprose
    22. 22III.: Every person is in the main and as a general rule the best judge of his own happiness. Hence legislation should aiprose
    23. 23(B): The Acceptance of Benthamismprose
    24. 24(C): The Trend and Tendency of Benthamite Legislationprose
    25. 25Lecture VII: The Growth of Collectivismprose
    26. 26Tory Philanthropy and the Factory Movementprose
    27. 27Changed Attitude of the Working Classesprose
    28. 28Modification in Economic and Social Beliefsprose
    29. 29Characteristics of Modern Commerceprose
    30. 30Introduction of Household Suffrage, 1868-1884prose
    31. 31Lecture VIII: The Period of Collectivism, (A): Principles of Collectivismprose
    32. 32Restrictions on Freedom of Contractprose
    33. 33Preference for Collective Actionprose
    34. 34Equalisation of Advantagesprose
    35. 35(B): Trend of Collectivist Legislationprose
    36. 36Lecture IX: The Debt of Collectivism to Benthamismprose
    37. 37Lecture X: Counter-currents and Cross-currents of Legislative Opinionprose
    38. 38A.: The Course of Legislative Opinionprose
    39. 39B.: The Actual Course of Ecclesiastical Legislationprose
    40. 40Lecture XI: Judicial Legislation, I.: The Special Characteristics of Judicial Legislation in Relation to Public Opinionprose
    41. 41II.: The Effect of Judge-made Law on Parliamentary Legislationprose
    42. 42Lecture XII: Relation Between Legislative Opinion and General Public Opinionprose
    43. 43Appendix, As to Similarities.prose
    44. 44As to Differences.prose
    45. 45(A): Movement for Abolition from 1772.prose
    46. 46(B): Observations.prose
    47. 47A.: Origin of Judge-made Lawprose
    48. 48B.: Amount of Judge-made Lawprose
    49. 49C.: Characteristics of Judge-made Lawprose
    50. 50D.: Objections to or Criticisms on the theory of Judge-made Lawprose
    51. 51A Selection of Works on Politicsprose

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    Figures182

    Jeremy Bentham · John Stuart Mill · Edmund Burke · Richard Cobden · James Mill · William Paley · William Blackstone · A. V. Dicey · Alexis de Tocqueville · Francis Place

    Ideas154

    Laissez faire · Collectivism · Individualism · Benthamism · Public opinion · Socialism · Democracy · Free trade · Utilitarianism · Collectivism and Socialism

    Places50

    England · France · United States · Ireland · Scotland · Birmingham · Court of Chancery · Manchester · Prussia · Switzerland

    Groups149

    Parliament · Benthamites · Whigs · Tories · House of Commons · Church of England · House of Lords · Evangelicals · Nonconformists · Trade unions

    Events43

    French Revolution · Reform Act of 1832 · Reign of Terror · Repeal of the Corn Laws · Revolution of 1688 · War of Secession · Cato Street Conspiracy · The Reformation · Abolition of the Slave Trade · Attack on Isaac Taylor's Home at Lavenham

    Objects54

    On Liberty · Black Book · Divorce Act, 1857 · Money-lenders Act, 1900 · Municipal Reform Act, 1836 · New Poor Law · Reform Act, 1832 · Statute Book · Act of Parliamentary reform of 1884 · Ad Clerum

    477 citations · 292 themes · 1,578 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.