Author: VETO BILL
Title: Three handbills against the bill, two signed by G.B.H.B. [with] 'Anent John Bull and Matters That Concern Him.'
Description: 1910 or 1911. Three handbills, each 205 x 175 mm. Plus 8 page pamphlet. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. In support of the veto of the House of Lords. The Conservative dominated Lords used their veto to quash the Liberal budget bill of 1909. Following a General Election in 1910, and the threat by Asquith asking King Edward VIII to create sufficient peers to neutralise their majority, the Lords backed down. The Parliament Bill of 1911 limited the Lords' veto, especially as regards to 'Money' bills. The author is unidentified but he obviously supported the peers, against the Commons, drawing comparisons with Cromwell's Council of State. "The House of Commons has no constitutional power in itself to mutilate and emasculate other Estates of the Realm. Why allow this small turbulent revolutionary handful of men, with only a tricky and illegitimate majority at their back, to enlarge their functions and overflow the boundaries of safe precedent, until their power becomes practically unlimited." The pamphlet can only be traced at the LSE.

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