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(a) Too abstract

(b) Too much Reference to Interest
(c) Too exclusively English

4. HOME RULE NOT A PLAN FOR IRELAND ONLY, BUT A

REVOLUTION FOR GREAT BRITAIN

5. OUR ONLY CHOICE BETWEEN SEPARATION AND UNION.

CHAPTER I.-MEANING OF HOME RULE.

6. THREE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HOME RULE
7. NOT TO BE CONFOUNDED WITH LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT,

WHICH IS

(a) Good or Bad according to Circumstances
(b) Not necessarily applicable to both Countries
(c) Not what would satisfy the Irish People.

8. HOME RULE IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH NATIONAL INDE

PENDENCE

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CHAPTER II-ENGLISH ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF HOME RULE.

9. STRENGTH OF HOME RULE MOVEMENT LIES IN DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT

10. FEELING MUST BE JUSTIFIABLE BY REASON

11. ARGUMENTS OF HOME RULERS

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ARGUMENT I.-FOREIGN EXPERIENCE.

12. PRINCIPAL INSTANCES

13. INAPPLICABLE FROM DIFFERENCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES

ARGUMENT II.-FROM WILL OF IRISH PEOPLE.

14. TWO RATIONAL CONVICTIONS UNDERLYING IT

(a) Claim of Ireland to be a Nation

(b) Claim that Law should not oppose National

Conscience

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15. THIS ARGUMENT REALLY AN APPEAL TO HISTORY

ARGUMENT III.-FROM IRISH HISTORY.

16. CONTINUOUS RECORD OF FAILURE AND MISERY

17. HENCE IRISH DISAFFECTION TO LAW

18. REAL LESSONS OF IRISH HISTORY

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19. DIFFERENT LEVELS AND TENDENCIES OF ENGLAND AND

IRELAND

20. FOUR RESULTING SOURCES OF TROUBLE

(a) Unsuitable Parliamentary Institutions

(b) Artificial Suppression of Revolution

(c) Religious Oppression.

(d) Unjust System of Land Tenure

21. MERE SEVERITY POWERLESS TO ENFORCE LAW

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22. TRUE ISSUE UPON WHICH OUR POLICY MUST DEPEND 20

23. RESULT OF HISTORICAL ARGUMENT

ARGUMENT IV. FROM THE VIRTUES OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.

24. WHICH WOULD NOT BE CALLED OUT BY HOME RULE . 22

ARGUMENT V.-FROM THE NECESSITY OF COERCION ACTS.

25. Two REAL GROUNDS OF OBJECTION TO THEM

(a) As being at variance with Moral Sentiment

(b) As being Dangerous to Liberty

27. PERMANENT AND GENERAL COERCION ACTS WOULD IM-

PROVE OUR CRIMINAL LAW

ARGUMENT VI.-FROM INCONVENIENCE TO ENGLAND.

28. LESSON FROM OBSTRUCTION

29. THESE ARGUMENTS REALLY TELL IN FAVOUR OF SEPARA-

TION RATHER THAN OF HOME RULE

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CHAPTER III.-HOME RULE: ITS FORMS.

30. CONDITIONS BY WHICH WE MUST TEST EACH PLAN

(A) FEDERALISM.

31. ADVANTAGES TO ENGLAND

32. THREE DEFINITE EVILS TO GREAT BRITAIN

(a) Would dislocate Constitution

(b) Would weaken Central Government

(c) Would not reconcile Ireland

33. WOULD CAUSE BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT

34. WOULD PRODUCE DEMAND FOR BREAK-UP OF EMPIRE

(B) COLONIAL INDEPENDENCE.

40. IT IS THE LEAST OBJECTIONABLE FORM OF HOME RULE

41. BUT REQUIRES EXEMPTION FROM TAXATION

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(C) GLADSTONIAN CONSTITUTION.

42. OUTLINE OF PROPOSED CONSTITUTION

43. HOW FAR DOES IT FULFIL ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS?

(a) Supremacy of Parliament

(b) Justice

(c) Finalty

44. IT WOULD DISAPPOINT BOTH COUNTRIES

45. IT WOULD PRODUCE CAUSES OF DISPUTE

46. IT COULD NOT WORK

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CHAPTER IV.-SEPARATION.

47. THREE MAIN EVILS

(a) Discreditable Surrender

(b) Loss of Men and Money

Possible hostile Neighbour

48. POSSIBLE COMPENSATIONS

(a) INCREASE OF POWER OF ENGLAND

(b) MIGHT BRING ABOUT FRIENDLINESS

CHAPTER V.-MAINTENANCE OF THE UNION.

49. FAILURES OF ACT OF UNION

50. DANGER OF REPEATING MISTAKES MADE BY ITS AUTHORS

51. INCONVENIENCES OF UNION

(a) Hampers English Policy

(b) Requires tedious Parliamentary Struggle

(e) And arduous Efforts to Govern justly

52. ACT OF UNION NOT ALTOGETHER FRUITLESS

53. REASONS FOR MAINTAINING THE UNION

(a) It "holds the Field"

(b) Strengthens the Empire

Enables us to carry out just Reforms

54. IT IS DEMANDED BOTH BY DUTY AND INTEREST.

55. FAILURE WOULD POINT TO SEPARATION

CONCLUSION.