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Dec 10, 1998 · The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity. John Hume. Government, People, Unity.
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Aug 23, 2022 · In Hume’s time, factions within the Kirk (Church of Scotland) competed for control of that institution and the social and political power it wielded. In the British Parliament, and in British society more widely, the often-virulent party politics of the day raised questions about the causes and effects of factionalism.
Dec 17, 2015 · Marianne Elliott discusses John Hume against the background of Ireland’s national struggle, using Wolfe Tone’s oft-quoted statement of his aims being to unite all of the people of Ireland and ...
Hume believes modern governments to be generally superior to ancient ones, but he tempers his praise with recognition of local modern failures and subversion of modern confidence in particular political principles, such as the balance of power.
Hume sees all governments as the result of a struggle between authority and liberty, with the best of them achieving a balance between the two by implementing systems of “general laws.” Hume’s cautious approach to social change may fairly be called conservative.
In order to illuminate the origins of justice and the rules of prop erty, Hume first imagines human life without any general social structure.1 Unlike Hobbes and Locke, Hume believes the transi tion from an unstructured condition to a governed society occurs. in two distinct stages. Humanity begins in a possible state of.
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In the early 1970s, Hume became increasingly involved in efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. He was one of the architects of the Sunningdale Agreement in 1973, which established a power-sharing government in Northern Ireland.
