Titlebook: Studies in British Government; N. H. Brasher Book 1971Latest edition N. H. Brasher 1971 Britain.government.political science.politics.Brit

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Voting Systems, more attention than it is sometimes given. The freedom of the voter to use his vote as he chooses, or not at all, is a feature of the system which can be taken for granted. Apart from this, the usual defence of the British method of voting is that it is simple, expedient, and, by and large, fair. T

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Local Government Some Recent and Prospective Changes, the greatest topical interest are those involved in the Government’s recent or prospective legislation on the subject. Reforms affecting finance have already been put into effect by the general grant system, imposed by the Local Government Act of 1958, and structural changes have taken place in the

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The Commonwealth The Problem of Independence, with a haze of emotion. There are some who feel a sense of guilt over the way in which the Empire was acquired. They dislike the acquisitive instinct so evident in its formation, the jingoism of painting the world map red, the commercial exploitation of the colonies in the eighteenth and nineteenth

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,British, American, and French Constitutions—a Comparison, source of insular satisfaction. The constitution of Britain is unknowable, like its weather, and the pride taken in both has a similar quality. It may be that there is merit in a constitutional flexibility which makes Governments continuously responsive to the wishes of the people, and it is still

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The Monarchy,rvention by the monarch in politics was undesirable. This largely removed the long-standing grievance against despotic or arbitrary actions by the monarch, but has led to criticisms of a different kind, that, as the political powers of the monarch have dwindled away almost to vanishing point, the re

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The Supremacy of the Cabinet, does not possess unbridled power. L. S. Amery in . writes ‘In no other country is there such a concentration of power, and such a capacityfor decisive action as that possessed by a British Cabinet’, but he goes on to say ‘ provided always that it enjoys the support of a majority in the House of Com

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The Redress of Grievances,the citizen as much as they concerned the position of Parliament in the constitution. In demanding that redress of grievances should pre­cede supply the Parliamentarians were thinking of their own position in relation to the monarchy; the benefit to the mass of the citizens was incidental but no les