 Lowell puts it, the governmental machinery "is one of wheels within wheels; the outside ring consisting of the party that has a majority in the House of Commons; the next ring being the ministry, which contains the men who are most active within that...  A Plea for Parliamentary Government - Page 17by Edward Melland - 1919 - 37 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - 1908 - 600 pages
...Commons and remain in power. The machinery is one of wheels within wheels; the outside ring consisting of the party that has a majority in the House of Commons; the next ring being the ministry, which contains the men who are most active within that party ; and... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1911 - 586 pages
...Commons and remain in power. The machinery is one of wheels within wheels ; the outside ring consisting of the party that has a majority in the House of Commons; the next ring being the ministry, which contains the men who are most active within that party ; and... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - 1918 - 352 pages
...speaks of it as a committee of Parliament chosen to rule the nation. More strictly, it is a committee of the party that has a majority in the House of Commons. The minority is not represented upon it; and in this it differs from every other parliamentary committee.... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg, Charles Austin Beard - 1919 - 640 pages
...cabinet. " The machinery," says Lowell, " is one of wheels within wheels ; the outside ring consisting of the party that has a majority in the House of Commons; the next ring being the ministry, which contains the men who are most active within that party ; and... | |
 | 1916 - 738 pages
...at all? Would not the Cabinet inevitably cease either to be a Committee of Parliament or a Committee of the Party that has a majority in the House of Commons, as it has been variously described? It certainly would involve a dislocation of the Government machine.... | |
 | 104 pages
...speaks of it as a committee of Parliament chosen to rule the nation. More strictly, it is a committee of the party that has a majority in the House of Commons. The minority are not represented upon it; and in this it differs from every other parliamentary committee.... | |
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