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England - national and local' the old Local Government Board, the Home Office, and the Treasury. I have seen the machine from outside and from inside: from outside, as a critic of the Central Authority from amongst the local muni cipal authorities, or as an independent Private Member of the House of Commons challenging the Administration; from inside, as part of that Central Authority replying to the local criticism, or as a Member of the Government defying or placating the attacks of the Private Member. Perhaps this experience may put colour and interest into an account of organization otherwise of necessity tending to dullness and drabness, and help to make the dry bones live.' My main object has been to endeavour to interest the citizen in the conduct of his own affairs. I have had in my mind especially as possible readers the classes who are just realizing what citizenship means - the students in colleges and the higher forms of schools, the men and women of the Universities, and that rapidly growing class of young Intellectual Labour which to-day is breaking through the former disability of poverty and dis comfort, and is eagerly seeking knowledge of the government of this country, with a view to future active participation in it.
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England - national and local' the old Local Government Board, the Home Office, and the Treasury. I have seen the machine from outside and from inside: from outside, as a critic of the Central Authority from amongst the local muni cipal authorities, or as an independent Private Member of the House of Commons challenging the Administration; from inside, as part of that Central Authority replying to the local criticism, or as a Member of the Government defying or placating the attacks of the Private Member. Perhaps this experience may put colour and interest into an account of organization otherwise of necessity tending to dullness and drabness, and help to make the dry bones live.' My main object has been to endeavour to interest the citizen in the conduct of his own affairs. I have had in my mind especially as possible readers the classes who are just realizing what citizenship means - the students in colleges and the higher forms of schools, the men and women of the Universities, and that rapidly growing class of young Intellectual Labour which to-day is breaking through the former disability of poverty and dis comfort, and is eagerly seeking knowledge of the government of this country, with a view to future active participation in it.
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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.
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I hope that the following popular account of British Government Institutions may be found useful to Students, and interesting to the General Reader, in America. They are described by one who has been engaged in their working, and therefore has probably better experience of their excellences and deficiencies than the professor in his study.
In all criticism I should plead for the memory of one vital fact which I have emphasized in the last chapter of the book, but which I would like also to place at the beginning. These are systems and institutions which are the inheritance of an enormous past. They go back in tradition, and in many cases in law, behind the actual building of (say) the banqueting hall of William II or the choir of Westminster Abbey, studded with the tombs of half-legendary kings.
They may be the best institutions or they may be the worst in the world. But the common law and the systems of popular Government have passed from this little England into vast dominions occupying whole Continents. The late Mr. Page in his letters to President Wilson, emphasized the greenness of the English grass and the complacency and sleepiness of English attitude towards reform. The charges, though in humourous form, are correct. It takes strong miseries and agitations and often the experience of fear of suffering or revolution to effect in these any essential change. Britain has never had an Abbé Sieyes. It has never had an Alexander Hamilton.
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