著者

岸本 広司

出版者

岐阜聖徳学園大学

雑誌

聖徳学園岐阜教育大学紀要 = Bulletin of Gifu College of Education (ISSN:09160175)

巻号頁・発行日

no.33, pp.311-330, 1997-02-28

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Edmund Burke was blamed by his Bristol constituents. The charges against him were : first, his failure to visit Bristol more often; second, his favouring of Ireland rather than Bristol in the argument over liberalising trade; third, his support for a bill introduced by Lord Beauchamp; fourth, his religious bias for Catholicism. He was defeated in a general election of 1780,although he defended his entire record as representative from Bristol. In this paper, I consider Burke's view on catholic relief in relation to the Irish problems and clarify that it was one of reasons of his loss of Bristol constituency.