ncial measures are entirely unsuited to
a referendum. Financial and executive control go together, and to take
either of them out of the hands of the majority in the House of Commons
is not to reform our system but to destroy it root and branch. The same
is not true of legislative control. There are cases in which a
government might fairly submit a legislative measure to the people
without electing to stand or fall by it.

[14] Probably the best alternative to these proposals is that of a small
directly elected Second Chamber, with a provision for a joint session in
case of insuperable disagreement, but with no provision for delay. This
proposal has the advantage, apparently, of commanding a measure of
Conservative support.

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On Liberty.

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INDEX

Association, right of, 37-8

Authoritarian rule, 8-10, 18, 21, 47, 54

Birth rate, 181

Charity, State, and Justice, 182

Church and State, 12

City States, 10-13, 16

Civil liberty, 21

Coercion, where justified, 139-154

Colonies, 41-4, 106, 216, 240

Conservatism, 88, 176, 217

Democracy, future of, 227-236, 242-51

Economic liberty, 34-8, 157

Education, 32, 40, 154

Feudalism, 15-18

Fiscal liberty, 25-6, 34, 78-81

Foreign policy, 41, 104-5

Freedom, conditions of, 23-4, 28, 31, 58, 91-2, 140, 146

Gladstone, W. E., 102-6

Greece, ancient, 10-13

Habeas Corpus Act, 23

Imperialism, 215, 221-4, 239

Industry, regulation of, 35-6, 82-8, 93

Inequality, the defence of, 131

Inherited wealth, 197-9

Ireland, 41, 103, 219, 224

Laissez-faire, 78-101

Land question, 82, 95-8, 175-6,