By W. John Morgan, Stephen Livingstone

legislation and Opinion in 20th Century Britain and eire covers 4 major issues: legislation and the country, tradition and identification, Public Morality and the Citizen, The loss of life of the English structure, each one subject matter being analyzed via essays authored by way of top British and Irish lecturers. The booklet presents a considerable and readable research of the connection among legislations and opinion in Britain and eire, with a distinct concentrate on the query of tradition, identification, and the country.

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For individuals to make this step from the passive to the active, they need to believe that they share with other citizens, interests and values derived from Public Opinion, Political Education and Citizenship 23 a common experience and anticipation that these should be maintained and developed. This calls for an understanding of what is meant by the term ‘political community’ and one sufficiently strong to hold within it voluntarily, not only individual citizens, but also the many diverse associations and their members that constitute ‘civil society’.

Public Opinion, Political Education and Citizenship 25 The results of the devolution referenda should be seen in this context. First, the question whether the Scots require a parliament and the Welsh a national assembly ‘for the better governance of their own affairs’ recognises the sense of national identity that persists in both countries. It also implies that someone else has been looking after those affairs hitherto and not necessarily in the interests of the Scottish and Welsh people, a feeling that hardened during the eighteen years of Tory government at Westminster.

277. D. Lloyd, ‘The law of associations’, in M. ) Law and Opinion in England in the 20th Century, Stevens and Sons Ltd, London, 1959. D. W. Brogan, Citizenship Today: England, France, the United States, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1960, pp. 14–15. See also B. J. Hake and W. J. Morgan (eds) Adult Education, Public Information and Ideology: British-Dutch perspectives on theory, history and practice, Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham, 1989, pp.

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