• system). Opposition to the Elizabethan Poor Law led to a Royal Commission on poor relief, which recommended that poor relief could not in the short term...
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    The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief in England and Wales that developed out of the codification of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws in 1587–1598...
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    into the Operation of the Poor Laws, which included Edwin Chadwick, John Bird Sumner and Nassau William Senior. Chadwick was dissatisfied with the law that...
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    Book of Murder (category Poor Law in Britain and Ireland)
    The Book of Murder, also known as the Marcus Affair, was a piece of propaganda written in the 1830s in opposition to the English Poor Laws. It was presented...
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    vigorous lobbyist in the campaign which led up to the Metropolitan Poor Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 6). Opposition to the English Poor Laws Ayers, Gwendoline...
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  • The Historiography of the Poor Laws can be said to have passed through three distinct phases. Early historiography was concerned with the deficiencies...
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    corn in British English denoted all cereal grains, including wheat, oats and barley. The laws were designed to keep corn prices high to favour domestic...
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  • administered Poor Law in the United Kingdom from 1835 to 1930. Boards of guardians were created by the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, replacing the parish overseers...
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  • Opposition to immigration, also known as anti-immigration, is a political ideology that seeks to restrict immigration. In the modern sense, immigration...
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    The term social question denotes the opposition between capital and labour (also described as the gap between rich and poor). The term social question...
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    entered Parliament in the 20th general election. Rowe served as acting Leader of the Opposition in winter 1954-55 due to Drew's poor health. Rowe initially...
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    repealing laws that the opposition considers as hindrances to European integration and undertaking significant judicial and electoral reforms to ensure "a...
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  • their religion. Currently, personal laws of various communities are governed by their religious scriptures. Personal laws cover marriage, divorce, inheritance...
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    Scottish poorhouse (category Scottish laws)
    the English Poor Laws. Representatives of the English Commissioners spent time in Scotland prior to making recommendations which resulted in the 1834...
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    single opposition candidates in single-seat constituencies. Edano resigned as party leader following the election on 2 November 2021, due to poorer than...
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    The Syrian opposition (Arabic: المعارضة السورية al-Muʻaraḍatu s-Sūrīyah, [almʊˈʕaːɾadˤɑtu s.suːˈɾɪj.ja]) is the political structure represented by the...
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    opposition parties, was formed in 2023 to compete against the NDA in the elections. Article 83 of the Constitution of India requires elections to the...
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    Angliae set out the laws of property or "things", alongside laws of "persons" and "actions". Feudalism had not always been a part of English society, rather...
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    The history of the English monarchy covers the reigns of English kings and queens from the 9th century to 1707. The English monarchy traces its origins...
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    that by the early 1830s the established system of poor relief was proving to be unsustainable. The New Poor Law of 1834 attempted to reverse the economic...
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  • in opposition but in contrast to this, some proposals also defend a universal right to private property, in the sense of a right of every person to effectively...
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    usually labeled with the terms "middle force," "third force," the "mainstream opposition," or more rarely, as the "conservative opposition." Mostly consisting...
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  • Hillbilly Elegy (category Use American English from October 2016)
    policies used to "gut the poor". He argues that Vance "totally discounts the role racism played in the white working class's opposition to President Obama...
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    to propose new laws (the right of initiative), the Council of the European Union represents the elected member-state governments, the Parliament is elected...
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  • From 1867 to 1974, various cities of the United States had unsightly beggar ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws. These laws targeted poor people and...
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    political opposition to making colonial subjects of the Filipinos.[citation needed] In The Poor Man’s Burden (1899), Dr. Howard S. Taylor addressed the negative...
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    2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election (category Articles to be expanded from October 2024)
    Mahayuti candidate. "On the back foot after poor LS show, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi shifts stance, announces 'save reservation' rally". The Indian Express. 17...
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  • The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation...
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    self-preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression." The English Bill of Rights of 1689...
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    "Law 35 – Hit wicket". Laws of Cricket. MCC. Retrieved 6 July 2017. "Law 34 – Hit the ball twice". Laws of Cricket. MCC. Retrieved 6 July 2017. "Law 37...
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