Abstract

Parliamentary Government and Government by Parliament - II

Parliaments exist in every civilized state. Parliamentary constitutionalism has produced all the benefits anticipated from its adoption by the constitutionalists of the last century. Parliamentary government, in short, meant originally a polity under which a representative assembly played a leading part. It dad not mean, either in England or elsewhere, a polity in which a representative assembly administered the government of the country. Government by Parliament, on the other hand, means a system under which a representative assembly appoints at its own will the national executive, and assumes more or less openly the direct administration of affairs. Take, for instance, the English House of Commons, which does not constitute the English Parliament, bat is by far the most important member of it