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It seems to me that The English Constitution can still be read as the classical account of the classical period of parliamentary government. The secret which Bagehot claimed to have discovered between the dignified and efficient parts of the constitution does indeed provide the correct explanation of the relationship between the Commons and the cabinet as it emerged between 1832 and 1867.
Reprinted from Mr Crossman’s ‘Introduction’ to Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (London: Watts, 1964), pp. 37–57, with the permission of the publisher.
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Reprinted from Mr Crossman’s ‘Introduction’ to Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (London: Watts, 1964), pp. 37–57, with the permission of the publisher.
See H. J. Laski, Reflections on the Constitution1 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1951) pp. 104, 108.
This is described by M. Ostrogorsky in his Democracy and the Organisation of Political Parties (Chicago: Quadrangle edn, 1964).
See Lord Morrison, Government and Parliament (London: Oxford, 1964), p. 17.
On this topic I have closely followed ‘The Apotheosis of the Dilettante’, by Dr Thomas Balogh, in Hugh Thomas (ed.), The Establishment (London: Blond, 1959).
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Crossman, R.H.S. (1985). Prime Ministerial Government. In: King, A. (eds) The British Prime Minister. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17887-2_8
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