Personal Rights Association

Personal Rights Association

The body which became the Personal Rights Association (PRA) was founded in England in 1871. The 1913 Annual Report of the PRA records that 'On the 14th March, 1871, a meeting largely attended by sympathisers from various parts of England, was held in Manchester, to consider the possibility of forming a National League or Association for watching, restraining, and influencing legislation, especially in matters affecting the interests of women, and the personal rights and liberties of the people'. A conference was held on 14th November in Liverpool and the Vigilance Association was founded. The first issue of a journal was published on January 15th 1881 with the title "Journal of the Vigilance Association for the Defence of Pesonal Rights". The quotation below the journal title was from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance". The 240th issue of the Journal, for February 1903, explained the reason for changing the title to "The Individualist" ('Monthly Journal of Personal Rights') was that it would 'be a more distinctive name'. The graphic design of the journal's title showed its editorial policy resting on the twin pillars of "Freedom as wide as possible" and "Equality before the law". The 1903 editorial explained that 'We shall not swerve from the principle which out little Society has persistently proclaimed for nearly a third of a century. If the tide were running strongly in our favour, it might then be argued with some show of plausibility, but not so as to convince us, that we might rest and be thankful. But the tide is running strongly against us. Socialism is in the air. Tyranny has assumed the garb of ethics, and Privilege essays to purchase for itself a renewed lease of life by "ransom" paid out of the pockets of its victims. Never was there a time when it was more necessary for the lovers of freedom and justice to be up and doing'. This was a time of debate between the proponents of Individualism and Socialism.

The 1913 Annual Report of the Personal Rights Association contained a reflective Presidential Address by Mr Franklin Thomasson. He reported that 'Since last we met, the Personal Rights Association has suffered a loss which it is impossible to exaggerate, in the death of our friend and leader Mr. Levy' and explained that Mr J H Levy was prominent in the affairs of the Personal Rights Association. He was described by Thomasson as 'a profound logician, an economist of high order, and had made the study of ethics his own'. Joseph Hiam Levy published books on these subjects and on Jewish issues. Thomasson summarised the work of the PRA: 'it has done effective reform work in the matter of Prison Law, Marriage Laws, Corporal Punishment in the Army and out of it, Liquour Law, Anti-Vaccination, Anti-Vivisection, Education, Women's Questions, Factory Laws, Capital Punishment, and many other questions, besides numerous instances of individual oppression and injustice' (1913 Report, page 19). One of the most prominent cases taken up by the PRA was that of Miss Jessie Brown. The offices of the PRA were at 11 Abbeville Road London, SW. The PRA survived until the death of its editor, Henry Meulen in 1978, it which time it was run from his home at No 31 Parkside Gardens, London SW19. A final issue was produced under the editorship of Pauline Russell.

References

Publications of the Personal Rights Association
*Lupton, Arnold. "Address on the subject of personal rights" 1916.
*Personal Rights Association. "Brief outline of proposals for monetary reform" 1978
*Personal Rights Association "The Case of Miss Jessie Brown. Correspondence with His Majesty’s Government and the Glasgow Corporation" 1911
*Levy, Joseph Hiam. "Licensed Liberty. A dream of the Vaccination Act", 1898
*Levy, Joseph Hiam. "Our Duty to the Animal World, with special reference to Sh’hhiytah": an address delivered to the Y 1913
*Caird, Alice Mona. "Personal Rights. A presidential address delivered to the forty-first annual meeting to the Personal Rights Association" 1913
*Levy, Joseph Hiam. "The Personal Rights Series. Edited by J. H. Levy". 1903
*Taylor, Peter Alfred. "Personal Rights. Speeches, etc". 1884
*Goeritz, Thomas. "The price of gold". 1966
*Vigilance, afterwards National Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, etc. (London) "The Protection of Young Girls. Observations on the Report of the Select Committee of the House" of 1882
*Levy, Joseph Hiam. "The Royal Commission on Vivisection", Mr. J. H. Levy’s Précis and Evidence with the suppressed in 1910
*Levy, J. H. "Short Studies in Economic Subjects" 1903.
*Bax, Ernest Belfort, "Socialism and Individualism". 1904
*Butler, Josephine Elizabeth. "Speech" delivered ... at the fourth annual meeting of the “Vigilance Association for the Defence 1874
*Levy, J. H. "Syphilitic vaccination" 1908
*Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights. "The Mutiny Acts of 1873". 1873

ee also

*Henry Meulen

External links

* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=325&letter=L Joseph Hiam Levy] - entry from the Jewish Encyclopedia.


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