AGAINST

HOME RULE.

BY A. V. DICEY, B.C.L.,

HON. LL.D. GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH;

VINERIAN PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD;
FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, AND FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD;
AUTHOR OF LECTURES INTRODUCTORY TO THE LAW OF THE
CONSTITUTION.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1886.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

THE rapid exhaustion of the first edition of this book is, it may be hoped, a proof that the discussion of the objections to Home Rule from a legal, and from an English point of view, is not without interest for the general public. The appearance of a second edition affords at any rate the appropriate occasion for correcting such errors as may be due to haste or oversight. Of this opportunity I have, to the best of my ability, availed myself. One of the mistakes which are now corrected ought not to pass without special notice. At p. 190 of my first edition I mistakenly attributed to Canon MacColl expressions which I find he has never employed, as to the relation between the Gladstonian constitution and the existing colonial system. For this error, arising from an oversight, I feel the most sincere regret.

My readers may notice frequent references throughout this work to my treatise on 'The Law of the Constitution.' I have ventured to refer to the book, although it is my