Corn Laws
Britishplural noun
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Sir Robert Peel was converted to free trade and the repeal of the protectionist Corn Laws, with not much immediate effect on “the condition of England” about which Thomas Carlyle and many others wrote.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2018
A sweltering House of Commons is debating the Corn Laws, while in Chelsea Thomas and Jane Carlyle worry that their stodgy mutton and potato diet is giving them constipation.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2017
The Corn Laws were simply tariffs, or taxes, that Parliament imposed on foreign grain.
From Time • Jun. 30, 2017
After six months of debate, the Corn Laws were repealed, but Peel's Tories were bitterly divided.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2016
The reversal of policy in this case was as remarkable for suddenness as that which, in the same year, had brought about the abolition of the Corn Laws.
From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir
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