Footnote 43: For references on the history of English political parties see pp. [144], [160], [166].[(Back)]
Footnote 44: Save that appeals might be carried from the Scottish Court of Session to the House of Lords.[(Back)]
Footnote 45: J. Mackinnon, The Union of England and Scotland (London, 1896). This scholarly volume covers principally the period 1695-1745.[(Back)]
Footnote 46: Styled "the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland."[(Back)]
Footnote 47: An abridgment of the text of the Act of Union with Scotland is printed in Adams and Stephens, Select Documents, 479-483; of that of the Act of Union with Ireland, ibid., 497-506. The full text of the former will be found in Robertson, Select Statutes, Cases, and Documents, 92-105; that of the latter, ibid., 157-164. On Ireland before the Union see May and Holland, Constitutional History of England, II., Chap. 16.[(Back)]
Footnote 48: Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (7th ed., London, 1908), 22-29.[(Back)]
Footnote 49: Convention occupies a large place in most political systems, even in countries which are governed under elaborate written constitutions. Their importance in the government of the United States is familiar (see Bryce, American Commonwealth, 3d ed., I., Chaps. 34-35). On the influence of conventions in France see H. Chardon, L'Administration de la France; les fonctionnaires (Paris, 1908), 79-105.[(Back)]
Footnote 50: J. Bryce, Flexible and Rigid Constitutions, in Studies in History and Jurisprudence (London and New York, 1901), No. 3.[(Back)]
Footnote 51: E. Boutmy, Studies in Constitutional Law: France—England—United States, trans. by E. M. Dicey (London, 1891), 6.[(Back)]
Footnote 52: Constitutional History of England, I., prefatory note.[(Back)]