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State politics depend upon federal politics.
'The national parties have engulfed the State parties. The latter have disappeared absolutely as independent bodies, and survive merely as branches of the national parties, working each in its own State for the tenets and purposes which a national party professes and seeks to attain.' See Bryce, _American Commonwealth_, ii.p.
194. [40] _i.e._ in 1893. [41] Mr.Morley at Newcastle, _The Times_, April 22, 1886. [42] Now Lord Morley of Blackburn. [43] _i.e._ in 1893, and as they continue to be in 1911. [44] Mr.Morley at Newcastle, _The Times_, April 22, 1886.
[Morley's argument applied primarily, no doubt, to the Home Rule Bill of 1886; its force, however, was infinitely strengthened as applied to the Home Rule Bill of 1893 by the change which retained eighty Irish members at Westminster with unrestricted powers of legislation.
The tenor of his argument applies, I contend with confidence, to any Home Rule Bill which shall propose to give Ireland a real Irish Parliament led by an Irish Cabinet, and at the same time to retain representatives of Ireland as members of the British Parliament.] [45] See p.
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