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Excerpt from Parliamentary Government in England, Vol. 1: Its Origin, Development, and Practical Operation
Cabinet Council. In the words of Lord Macaulay (history of England, iv. 'no writer has yet attempted to trace the progress of this institution, an institution indispensable to the harmonious working of our other institutions.' My own researches in this field enabled me to accumulate a mass of information which has proved of much utility in the settlement of many points arising out of responsible govern ment. I was frequently urged, by persons whose opinions were entitled to respect, to digest and arrange my collections in a methodical shape. The fact that the greater part of my notes had been collected when engaged in the investigation of questions not of mere local or temporary significance, but capable of general application, led me to think that, if the result were embodied in the form of a treatise on parliamentary government as administered in Great Britain, it might prove of practical value both in England and her colonies and that in the constitutional states of continental Europe it might serve to make more clearly known the peculiar features of that form of government, which has been so often admired, but never successft imitated. I therefore determined to avail myself of the resources of the well-stored library under my charge, and attempt the compilation of a work which, while trenching as little as possible on ground already worthily occupied by former writers, should aim at supplying information upon branches of constitutional knowledge hitherto overlooked.
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