I.--Home Rule as Federalism
II.--Home Rule as Colonial Independence
III.--Home Rule as the Revival of Grattan's Constitution
IV.--Home Rule under the Gladstonian Constitution


CHAPTER VIII.


CONCLUSION


APPENDIX





CHAPTER I.

NATURE OF THE ARGUMENT.


[Sidenote: Aim and line of argument]

My aim is to criticise from a purely English point of view the policy of
Home Rule, or the proposal to create a more or less independent
Parliament in Ireland; and as a result of such criticism to establish
the truth, and develop the consequences, of this proposition--namely,
that any system of Home Rule, whatever be the form it takes, is less