Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The object of the following Essay is to set forth the unconstitutional nature of certain recent Acts of the Legislature, and the danger arising therefrom, with the view of arousing the country to a sense of that danger.
The object of the following Essay is to set forth the unconstitutional nature of certain recent Acts of the Legislature, and the danger arising therefrom, with the view of arous...
2. CHAPTER II.I have now set forth the great principles of Magna Charta, and the foundations of these principles, and have endeavoured to show how much English liberty depends on the preserva...
3. Act 1869, Clause 4.—“Where an information on oath is laid before ajustice by a superintendent of police[23] charging to the effect that the informant has good cause to believe that a woman, therein named, is a common prostitute, and either is...
4. Act 1866, Clause 16.—“In either of the following cases, namely,”—“If the woman on whom such a notice is served appears herself, or by some person on her behalf, at the time and place appointed in the notice, or at some other time and place ap...
5. CHAPTER III.I now come to consider the cases to which I have before alluded, in which jury trial is dispensed with. I shall show their nature, and how the question to be decided under the A...
6. CHAPTER IV.I shall in this chapter give some portion of a debate which took place in the House of Lords in the year 1736, on the occasion of an attempt made by Parliament to introduce a Bi...
7. CHAPTER V.The offences which are punished under other Acts of Parliament, or according to the common law of England, are all either carefully defined by these Acts and that law, or else t...
8. CHAPTER VI.Having now pointed out the principal illegalities and oppressions which are the necessary results of a principle so evil as that which is embodied in the Acts to which we object...
9. CHAPTER VII.I have before alluded to the two great struggles in the history of this country, which, occasioned by the arbitrary encroachments of those in power, led to the more sure establi...
10. CHAPTER VIII.I come now to treat of the brighter and more hopeful side of the picture, and of the means whereby redress of the wrong lately perpetrated is to be obtained. De Lolme, after dwe...
11. CHAPTER IX.I have now shown the grave character of the question which we are discussing. I have stated the principles of Magna Charta which form the basis of our Constitution, and I have p...
12. Act 1868 was especially passed for the sole reason of substituting in20. If in any such examination the woman examined is found to be affected with a contagious disease, she shall thereupon be liable to be detained in a certified hospital, subjec...
13. Act 1866, clause 17.— “Any woman, in any place to which this Actapplies, may voluntarily, by a submission in writing, signed by her in the presence of, and attested by, the superintendent of police, subject herself to a periodical medical ex...
14. Act 1869, clause 6.—“Where any woman in pursuance of the principal Act(1866) voluntarily subjects herself by submission in writing to a periodical medical examination under that Act, such submission shall, for all the purposes of the Contagious Di...