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By Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler
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The essay critiques recent Contagious Diseases Acts as violations of constitutional principles, arguing they authorize arbitrary interference with personal liberty and undermine legal safeguards such as trial by peers and habeas corpus; the author traces these principles to Magna Carta and constitutional writers, analyzes the Acts' legal and moral implications, appeals to common sense and the working classes, and warns that parliamentary overreach threatens civil rights and national moral life.

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Title: The constitution violated

An essay

Author: Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler

Release date: June 15, 2025 [eBook #76301]

Language: English

Original publication: Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1871

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THE
CONSTITUTION VIOLATED

AN ESSAY
BY THE AUTHOR OF
THE “MEMOIR OF JOHN GREY OF DILSTON.”
DEDICATED TO THE WORKING MEN AND WOMEN OF
GREAT BRITAIN.
EDINBURGH
EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS
1871.
Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas and Archibald Constable,
FOR
EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS.
LONDON HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.
CAMBRIDGE MACMILLAN AND CO.
GLASGOW JAMES MACLEHOSE.