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Thursday, February 28, 2019

How Successfully Did the Liberals Handle the Constitutional Crisis?

How successfully did the liberals handle the constitutional crisis in 1901 1911? In 1909 Lloyd George was the Chancellor, he was in charge of the countries money and how they spend it and how practically they tax the public. He needed to increase the budget some how to knuckle under for battle ships because England was in a arms race with Germ all. When taxing the concourse he only wanted to increase the tax for the rich, he did not see it would be f billet to increase the taxes for the already poor and those struggle to pay the tax already however he came across a problem.The House of Lords had been the most powerful part of parliament, they had the power to block any bills and laws coming form the House of Commons. They had recently blocked the Education Act. This had been usage for the past 200 years allowing them to dismiss any bill, this was incredibly incline though, most bills were turned to benefit the poor and to charge the rich. This bill would easily pass the Commo ns but not the Lords, Asquiths solution was to ask fagot Edward VII (who had the highest power in the country) to seduce peers.In doing this the Liberals would be able to egress vote the Conservative lords. The King agreed to this but he all at once died in May 1910. This presented the Liberals with another step to over come. The next to the air was George V his ambition was to get two parties to come to some change of agreement without resorting to making new peers. A constitutional conference was held surrounded by June and November. The Conservatives offered to reform the composition of lords, but the liberals were determined to reduce the power of the constitution.The Conservatives excessively tried insisted the lords should puzzle the power to veto any change in the constitution, enabling them to block the home rule for Ireland. Asquith was under strong cart from the Irish to reject the Conservatives proposal. George V finally agreed he would create enough new peers to pass the parliament bill as yen as the Liberals one a general choice fought on this issue held in December. The Election left the Liberals and Conservatives with exactly the equivalent number of seats, 272 each.However because the Liberals had a strong backing from Labour, who had 47 seats, and from the Irish Nationalists, who had 84 seats, the Liberals were able to rely on a working majority and would preserve in government. This parliament act helped make the British constitution more than democratic. They stopped the lords form controlling parliament and what happened to the country. For this origin alone I believe the Liberals were successful with the constitution crisis, however they would invite not been able to do it alone, without the help of Labour and the Irish Nationalists the conservatives would have been in power.

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