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The King and Country Debate was a debate on 9 February 1933 at the Oxford Union Society. The motion presented, "That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country", passed with 275 votes for the motion and 153 against it. [1] The motion would later be named the Oxford Oath or the Oxford Pledge.
King Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509) concentrated on establishing peace in England, especially against the threatened rebellions by the newly defeated House of York. Foreign affairs apart from Scotland were not a high priority. Scotland was an independent country, and peace was agreed to in 1497.
Following the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain (which united England and Scotland) in 1707, British foreign relations largely continued those of the Kingdom of England. British foreign policy initially focused on achieving a balance of power within Europe, with no one country achieving dominance over the affairs of the continent.
England and Scotland each also continued to have their own system of education. Meanwhile, the War of the Spanish Succession against France was underway. It see-sawed back and forth until a more peace-minded government came to power in London and the treaties of Utrecht and Rastadt ended the war. British historian G. M. Trevelyan argues:
The British Peace Movement, 1870-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2001) ISBN 978-0-19-924835-3, some pages available at GoogleBooks – Chapter 1 concerns the first fifty years or so of the British Peace Society from 1816; van der Linden, Wilhelmus Hubertus. The International Peace Movement, 1815–1874 (Tilleul, 1987) ISBN 978-9-08-001341-4
Armory v Delamirie (1722) K.B., 1 Strange 505, 93 ER 664, right to property that you find. Entick v Carrington (1765), right against arbitrary search and seizure; Lord Camden, quoting almost verbatim from John Locke, held that man entered society to secure his "property" (lives, liberties and estates). His principle was that the individual ...
Jennie Spencer Churchill with her two sons, Jack (left) and Winston (right) in 1889. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. [2] On his father's side, he was a member of the aristocracy as a descendant of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. [3]
At this point England ceased to exist as a separate political entity, and since then has had no national government. The laws of England were unaffected, with the legal jurisdiction continuing to be that of England and Wales, while Scotland continued to have its own laws and law courts.