Abstract

Cabinet Government - I

The article discusses the book "Les Ministres dans les principaux pays d'Europe et d'Amérique," by L. Dupriez. This work is preceded by a report made by the Comte de Franqueville, Member of the Institute, to the Academy of Moral and Political Science, relating to a competition upon the subject of the book for the Odilon Barrot prize. The English system of cabinet government is more or less familiar to all Americans who have examined constitutional law at all. Yet that system, which has furnished the basis for all modern parliamentary practice, and is certainly one of the most important political discoveries ever made, grew up silently and almost unperceived during two centuries, and has only within a generation become an object of conscious study and analysis.