The state and the citizen
By: by the Earl of Selborne.
Series: The imperial library; Cambridge Greek and Latin classics
Publisher: F. Warne and co.
Published: 1913
Place of publication: London and New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.; Legislative bodies -- Upper chambers.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The House of lords at the time of Oliver Cromwell.; title: Foreign second chambers, their origins and composition.; title: Origin and composition of colonial second chambers.; title: The powers of second chambers and the provisions for avoiding parliamentary deadlocks.; title: General recognition of the value of the double-chamber system.; title: The nature of the peril of the single-chamber system. The Parliament act and the single-chamber system.; title: The absence of constitutional safeguards.; title: The referendum.; title: Appendixes: I. Legislatures of the oversea states. II. Legislatures of foreign countries. III. The Parliament act, 1911.