The Government of England (Vol. I)
A. Lawrence Lowell, the Harvard political scientist who later became president of the university, set out in The Government of England to describe how British institutions actually worked in his own day. This first volume, published in 1908, opens with a note on the unwritten constitution and then takes the central government piece by piece: the Crown and its relation to the Cabinet, the ministers and executive departments, the Treasury, the permanent civil service, and the House of Commons, from constituencies and electoral procedure to the rules of debate. Lowell writes as a careful outside observer, interested in practice, party discipline and the slow adjustments that kept an old system working under a broad franchise. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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