Corn Laws
Britishplural noun
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What would it be like if, every time a white English actor received a script, it always concerned the 1846 repeal of the Corn Laws?
From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2019
The protesters, 60,000 to 80,000 strong according to contemporary estimates, marched under a broad banner of reform, demanding expanded suffrage, tax relief and repeal of the trade-inhibiting Corn Laws.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2019
The Corn Laws were simply tariffs, or taxes, that Parliament imposed on foreign grain.
From Time • Jun. 30, 2017
The Irish potato famine, in which up to one million people eventually died, increased the clamour to repeal the Corn Laws and increase the food supply.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2016
It was an outside organization that carried the repeal of the Corn Laws, that carried reform in Parliament, that repealed the taxes on knowledge, that abolished West Indian slavery.’
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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