CONTENTS. Legislative remedies-General character of British legislation— ... PAGE xi.-xxvi. Subordinate position of representatives in the early Parliaments ... Early electors familiar with parliamentary functions The residential qualification of representatives ... Why two representatives were elected by each constituency The duties of a representative ... Why there are no instances of representatives having been dis- Abandonment of the residential qualification for members The substitution of Septennial for Annual Parliaments and its consequences The Act for Preventing the Long Intermission of Parliaments The object of the Legislature in passing that measure The Commons dissatisfied with The Septennial Act brought in under false pretences The organization of party The unprincipled character of English political parties Government by Party not government by the majority Party government and parliamentary government often antago- nistic ... Parliamentary reform retarded in consequence of its having been ... ... Government by Party at variance with representative institutions Instances where the ministry of the day have overruled the The natural results of Government by Party exhibited in the ... Singular position taken up by the advocates of party government The system confined to political life The Commons have repeatedly rejected measures approved of by the constituent body because public opinion had not endorsed The Commons have passed measures to which they were them- selves opposed when strong outside pressure was in favour of The Lords and the Irish Church Disestablishment Bill The platform and the press are valuable educational agencies ... THE POLITICAL UNITY OF THE CABINET. What parliamentary government has degenerated into No rule determining what is, or what is not, a cabinet question... the policy on which they may have obtained office |