Essay on Profits - http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/ricardo/profits.txt
An essay from David Ricardo on the influence of the Corn Laws on the profits from capital investment. |
For a Repeal of the Corn Laws by Sir Robert Peel - http://www.bartleby.com/268/4/17.html
Parliamentary Speech by the Prime Minister, Robert Peel, on the successful motion to abolish the Corn Laws. Peel was seen as a traitor by many of his Conservative colleagues because of his volte-face on maintaining the laws. |
Repeal of the British Corn Laws - http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fusde%2Fusde0029%2F&tif=00397.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DAGD1642-0029-124
An article from the 1851 edition of the United States Democratic Review. |
Richard Cobden - Free Trade With All Nations - http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/cobdenonfreetrade.html
A speech given by a prominent opponent of the Corn Laws. |
The John Hampden Society - http://www.johnhampden.org/
A society devoted to the study of seventeenth century Parliamentarian John Hampden, who became famous through resisting the Charles I's illegal Ship Money tax. |