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Selborne, William Waldegrave Palmer, Earl of, 1859-1942.

The state and the citizen / [electronic resource] the Earl of Selborne. - London and New York : F. Warne and Co., 1913. - 208 p : ill. ; 17 cm. - The imperial library .

Introduction.--The House of lords at the time of Oliver Cromwell.--Foreign second chambers, their origins and composition.--Origin and composition of colonial second chambers.--The powers of second chambers and the provisions for avoiding parliamentary deadlocks.--General recognition of the value of the double-chamber system.--The nature of the peril of the single-chamber system. The Parliament act and the single-chamber system.--The absence of constitutional safeguards.--The referendum.--Appendixes: I. Legislatures of the oversea states. II. Legislatures of foreign countries. III. The Parliament act, 1911.

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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.


Legislative bodies--Upper chambers.

JN623 1913 / .S4

323.4 / SES
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