ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE

organization formed in 1839 to work for the repeal of the English corn laws. It was an affiliation of groups in various cities and districts with headquarters at Manchester and was an outgrowth of the smaller Manchester Anti-Corn-Law Association. Richard Cobden and John Bright were its leading figures. The league won over Sir Robert Peel to its views, and the corn laws were repealed in 1846.

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books on: Anti Corn Law League  - 576 results

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The Corn Laws and Social England
Book by C. R. Fay; Cambridge University Press, 1932
Subjects: Corn Laws (Great Britain), Grain Trade--Great Britain, Great Britain--Commercial Policy
...came in 1839, the Leagues correspondence increased...generations have left the League far behind. Big...Besides these the Leagues cartoons and placards...Thackeray drew for the Anti-Corn Law Circular of July...cartoon. 1 But the League had allies which...
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From Prohibition to Regulation: Bookmaking, Anti-Gambling, and the Law
Book by David Dixon; Clarendon Press, 1991
Subjects: Book-Making (Betting)--Great Britain, Book-Making (Betting)--Law And Legislation--Great Britain, Gambling--Great Britain
...Bookmaking i. The National Anti-Gambling League Like similar groups Dixon...164-5 , the National Anti- Gambling League NAGL...Abolitionists and the Anti-Corn Law League--and gambling...as slavery or the Corn Laws. 3 The temperance movement...
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The Primrose League, 1883-1906
Book by Janet Henderson; Columbia University Press, 1942
Subjects: Conservatism--Great Britain--History, Primrose League, Social movements--Great Britain--19th century
...successful repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, Liberal Registration...in both parties. The Anti-Corn-Law League was especially active...noticeable. 9 In 1844 the Anti-Corn-Law League had...described it. When an Anti-Corn-Law spokesman...
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Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844
Book by Ron Harris; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Business Enterprises--Law And Legislation--Great Britain--History
...income tax. He was able to draft a compromise on the Corn Law question, which would delay the conflict between the agriculturists and the Anti-Corn Law League for a short while. His budget for 1842 was in tune...
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The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought: Law, Power, and Ideology
Book by Scott R. Bowman; Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996
Subjects: Corporation Law--United States, Corporations--Political Aspects--United States, United States--Politics And Government--20th Century
...corporate capitalism administrative law, 128 AFL-CIO, 143 Alexander...Company, 329 n. 116 anarchism, 77 Anti-Corn Law League, 293 antimonopoly tradition and...regulatory commissions, 5 - 6 antitrust law. See also antitrust policy; Clayton...
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journal articles on: Anti Corn Law League  - 124 results

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From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective
Journal article by John V. C Nye; The Independent Review, Vol. 13, 2008
...trade and because the Corn Law repeal was not...Press, 2007). The Corn Laws were a relatively...predated the Corn Laws and lay at the core...decades even after Corn Law repeal. Because...In contrast, the Anti-Corn Law League and the liberal reformers...
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Off-Court Misbehavior: Sports Leagues and Private Punishment
Journal article by Janine Young Kim, Matthew J. Parlow; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 99, 2009
Subjects: Athletes--Discipline, Criminal law--Social aspects, Professional sports--Laws, regulations and rules
...mainly in contract and property law. (128) Certainly, punishment...its decision under contract law (pointing to the terms of players contracts, the league constitution, by-laws, and collective bargaining agreements) as well as property law (arguing loss of good reputation...employee punishment, sports leagues possess an imperfect ability...
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A Horse of a Different Color: A Study of Color Bias, Anti-Trust, and Restraint of Trade Violations in the Equine Industry
Journal article by Mary W. Craig; St. Thomas Law Review, Vol. 22, 2010
Subjects: Animal industry--Trade policy, Animal products industry--Trade policy, Antitrust law--Evaluation, Business judgment rule--Evaluation, Horse breeding--Economic aspects, Restraint of trade--Laws, regulations and rules
...BUSINESS COMMERCE CODE, ANTI-TRUST AND RESTRAINT OF TRADE LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES To...Floyd lawsuit changed the law in Texas, and changed...examine the principles of anti-trust and restraint...because a court will presume anti-competitive effects...within the teeth of the law." (116) Conduct having...afoul of the antitrust laws. (117) Even though...
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Privacy Rights and Abortion Outing: A Proposal for Using Common-Law Torts to Protect Abortion Patients and Staff
Journal article by Alice Clapman; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 112, 2003
Subjects: Abortion--Political aspects, Privacy, Right of--Laws, regulations, etc., Pro-life movement--Political activity, Torts--Laws, regulations, etc.
...they have secured laws, (18) ordinances...overlooked common-law privacy rights...conflicting interests of anti-abortion protestors...form, the common law fails to match...harassment. Once anti-abortion protestors...holding that state laws that facilitate...Laying Down Media Law: Free Speech...Collins Robert Corn-Revere, Wanted...Clamping Down on Anti-Abortion Web...
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Preemption & Human Rights: Local Options after Crosby V. NFTC
Journal article by Robert Stumberg; Law and Policy in International Business, Vol. 32, 2000
Subjects: Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council--120 S. Ct. 2288 (2000), Economic sanctions--Laws, regulations, etc., Exclusive and concurrent legislative powers--Laws, regulations, etc., Human rights--Laws, regulations, etc., Massachusetts General Laws--Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 7, s. 22G-22M, Myanmar--Civil rights
...state or local law, the federal foreign...state or local law unconstitutional...each side of the anti-Apartheid boycotts...well as the Burma laws,(9) there is...consciences through laws, they will have...the National League for Democracy...17) The anti-Apartheid movement...single procurement law. All of these...
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magazine articles on: Anti Corn Law League  - 60 results

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Richard Cobden and the Crimean War: Anthony Howe Looks at the Anti-War Stance of the Great Victorian Reformer; His Fall from Grace and Subsequent Revival
Magazine article by Anthony Howe; History Today, Vol. 54, June 2004
Subjects: Activists--Influence, Activists--Political activity, Bright, John--Influence, Bright, John--Political activity, British foreign relations--History, British history, 1815-1914, Cobden, Richard--Influence, Cobden, Richard--Political activity, Crimean War, 1853-1856--Political aspects, Political activists--Influence, Political activists--Political activity, Reformers--Influence, Reformers--Political activity, Social reformers--Influence, Social reformers--Political activity
...struggle for the repeal of the Corn Laws had seen the rapid rise...1811-89), led the Anti-Corn Law Leagues assault on the Corn Laws. The Corn Laws, or as...the celebrated hero of the Anti-Corn Law League reduced to a position of...
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Their Characteristic Music: Thoughts on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture
Magazine article by David W. Brown; National Urban League. The State of Black America, 2001
...the cocky swagger of a corn-rowed basketball player...willfully harsh and anti-assimilationist" music...and then the 1990s dot-corn explosion fueled an extraordinary...the act. Whether this law will be passed is uncertain...material gain. They condemn anti-intellectualism and...
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America's Top Black Lawyers: From Corporate Law to Criminal Litigation, Here Are the Lawyers to Call to Get You the Best Deal or Keep You out of Trouble
Magazine article; Black Enterprise, Vol. 34, November 2003
...dedicated to changing the law through progressive...Proposition 187 (anti-immigrant) and...organizations. The Harvard Law School alumnus also...the National Urban League Inc. Power Play...teeth in criminal law, trying civil rights and anti-death penalty cases...
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Bank Buster
Magazine article by David Corn; Mother Jones, Vol. 34, November 2009
Subjects: Bankruptcy laws, Congressional committees, Consumer credit, Credit card industry, Families & family life, Law schools, Legislation, Middle class, Real estate closings, Tennis rackets
...Bank Buster by David Corn BY HER OWN reckoning...enthusiastic Harvard law professor who specializes...class populist in Ivy League garb change the worldor...landed at Rutgers law school, where she...would try out for the law review, she didnt...panel to advance an anti-bank agenda, and...
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Josephine Butler Feminism's Neglected Pioneer
Magazine article by Trevor Fisher; History Today, Vol. 46, June 1996
Subjects: Butler, Josephine--Biography, Feminists--Biography, Prostitution--Laws, regulations, etc., United Kingdom--History, 1837-1901 (Victorian era), Women's rights--History
...antislavery, the Anti-Corn Law League and temperance and...months maximum. Anti-vice campaigners...to form a National Anti-Contagious Diseases...British section. The anti-regulation movement...in the English laws as should make it...
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newspaper articles on: Anti Corn Law League  - 8 results

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Europe Is One of Our Worst Crises for 150 Years, Warns Major; CORN TAX THAT LED TO CLASS WAR
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 23, 1996
Subjects: Major, John
...Years, Warns Major; CORN TAX THAT LED TO CLASS...repeal of the Corn Laws. Mr Majors blunt...5 Live. THE Corn Laws were introduced in...The creation of the Anti-Corn Law League in 1838 added fuel...Robert Peel that the laws had to be scrapped...
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Ten of the Greatest Economists
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 17, 2011
Subjects: Economists--Economic aspects
...he saw governments sole job as to establish law and justice, and provide for the nations education...thinking on free trade, and his work helped the Anti-Corn Law League win the battle over the Corn Laws (protective duties on corn, designed to protect...
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MP's Conscience and Conviction Still Remains a Bright Beacon for Our Time
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 24, 2011
Subjects: Bright, John, Legislators
...Manchester. He was a key member of the Anti-Corn Law League which, with the Manchester School...culminating in the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. Its legacy remains today...driven Peel to the repeal of the Corn Laws. Throughout his entire career...
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Pipe Dream Becomes Reality More Than a Century On
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 6, 2005
...of the Irish potato crop strengthens the hand of the Anti-Corn Law League, campaigning against tariffs on imported grain. Sir...eventually agrees to alleviate poverty and repeals the Corn Law in January 1846. 2005 Famine in developing countries...
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Rock of Ages
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), January 27, 2007
...bank, could owe its roots to two of the greatest 19th Century reformers, Richard Cobden and John Bright of the Anti-Corn Law League. This week it announced ambitious expansion plans which could see thousands of new jobs created, but few would...
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encyclopedia articles on: Anti Corn Law League  - 15 results

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Anti-Corn-Law League
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE organization formed in 1839 to work for the repeal of the English corn laws . It was an affiliation of groups in...outgrowth of the smaller Manchester Anti-Corn-Law Association. Richard Cobden and John...
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Corn Laws
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CORN LAWS regulations restricting...cheap. Subsequent laws, numerous and complex...The purpose of the laws was to assure a stable...scarcity. The corn law of 1815 was designed...a campaign by the Anti-Corn-Law League , the corn laws were...
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Great Britain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...claimed the right to suspend laws. The birth (1688) of...of bread, and the Poor Law of 1834 were harsh revisions of the relief laws. The social unrest following...trade. The efforts of the Anti-Corn-Law League, organized by Richard...
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Bright, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Lancashire. A founder (1839) of the Anti-Corn Law League, he rose to prominence on the...formidable oratory against the corn laws . A staunch laissez-faire capitalist...After the repeal (1846) of the corn laws, Brights principal concern...
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Cobden, Richard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...he devoted himself to the formation and work of the Anti-Corn-Law League . Campaigning both inside and outside Parliament...he finally won over Sir Robert Peel , and the corn laws were repealed in 1846. After 1849, Cobden concerned...
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