Text

British and Transvaal laws and constitutions : a comparison

---

DURING the late General Election, Mr. Herbert Spencer, writing to the Right Hon. Leonard Courtney with reference to the war, made the suggestion that « A Comparison should be made between the constitution and doings of the socalled Boer oligarchy and the oligarchy which existed in England prior to the Reform Bill of 1832, and it should be widely circulated and emphasised." Evidently, Mr. Spencer's idea was that such a comparison would show that the Boers were at least as advanced as regards their " constitution and doings " as was the Great Britain of 1832. But there is absolutely no necessity to go back seventy years in English History to find a parallel for the Transvaal of to-day, and the fact that such an assumption should be made by a man of Mr. Herbert Spencer's eminence is striking testimony to the general ignorance which prevails in this country regarding the little Republics with which we are so unhappily at war in South Africa

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

srlf_ucla:LAGE-2983995

Publisher

: London : A. & H.B. Bonner., 2024

Collation

cdl; americana

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

68542596

Classification

NONE

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

-

Subject(s)

British and Transvaal

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Rose, Edward B

Other Information

Cataloger

Suwardi

Source

https://archive.org/details/britishtransvaal00roseiala

Validator

Suwardi

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

urn:oclc:record:1041654882

Journal Volume

-

Journal Issue

-

Subtitle

-

Parallel Title

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment