Download or read book The Book of Parliament (Classic Reprint) written by Michael MacDonagh and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of Parliament I Desire to say a few words in explanation of the aim and scope of this work. Of books about Parliament there is no lack. There are many Constitutional Histories, written by erudite historians and philosophic students of institutions, and also several legal textbooks compiled by learned lawyers. "The Book of Parliament," however, does not aspire to be classed with grave and profound treatises on Parliamentary government, or ponderous repositories of the technicalities of Parliamentary law and procedure. But there has hitherto been no complete picture of the two Houses of the Legislature engaged in the work of law-making, and my aim in writing this book has been to provide such a view of what I may call the human side of Parliament. I trace the progress of a Parliament from the General Election, when it is constituted by the votes of the people, until the day the Sovereign, on the advice of the Cabinet, pronounces the sentence of its dissolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.