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L'Union Sacree - A Lesson in Parliamentary Government
Dewey, Stoddard | November 25, 1915 issue

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Americans for the most part decline to understand why and how the French change their Government, and Germans regularly misunderstand. In France, Parliament represents the people and Government represents Parliament. This principle leads in ordinary times to absolute rule of the country by a party majority in Parliament. But when all the people, of every party and class, must stand or fail together, Government must be made to represent them all. Parties-Socialist and Radical and Conservative, and classes, workmen and peasants and nobles and bourgeois, Freemasons, and Catholics, must all have their representatives in Government as they have in the armies fighting afield.

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CABINET system; POLITICAL parties; SOCIALISM; SOCIAL classes; FRENCH; PEASANTRY
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