Parliament and the Shaping of Eighteenth-Century English Social Policy
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
- Vol. 40, 63-92
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3679163
Abstract
THIS paper provides a preliminary and exploratory account of some of the ways in which eighteenth-century parliaments helped to shape English social policy. At the heart of this study lie a body of measures, several hundred strong, which came before Parliament in the course of the eighteenth century. These were general rather than local measures, applying to the country as a whole. They dealt with such matters as the relief and regulation of the poor, repression of vice (variously conceived), handling of insolvent (and therefore perhaps imprisoned) debtors, and prevention and punishment of crime.Keywords
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