Footnote 103: Government of England, I., 56. The best discussion of the organization, functions, and relationships of the cabinet is contained in Lowell, op. cit., I., Chaps. 2-3, 17-18, 22-23. Other good general accounts are Low, Governance of England, Chaps. 2-4, 8-9; Moran, English Government, Chaps. 4-9; Macy, English Constitution, Chap. 6; Anson, Law and Custom of the Constitution, II., Pt. 1, Chap. 2; and Maitland, Constitutional History of England, 387-430. A detailed and still valuable survey is in Todd, Parliamentary Government, Parts 3-4. A brilliant study is Bagehot, English Constitution, especially Chaps. 1, 6-9. The growth of the cabinet is well described in Blauvelt, The Development of Cabinet Government in England; and a monograph of value is P. le Vasseur, Le cabinet britannique sous la reine Victoria (Paris, 1902). For an extended bibliography see Select List of Books on the Cabinets of England and America (Washington, 1903), compiled in the Library of Congress under the direction of A. P. C. Griffin.[(Back)]
Footnote 104: In the First Statute of Westminster.[(Back)]
Footnote 105: The American Commonwealth (3d ed.), I., 35-36.[(Back)]
Footnote 106: The Electorate and the Legislature (London, 1892), 48.[(Back)]
Footnote 107: That is to say, the quota of members mentioned was returned by the counties and by the boroughs contained geographically within them.[(Back)]
Footnote 108: See p. [23].[(Back)]
Footnote 109: Equivalent in present values to £30 or £40.[(Back)]
Footnote 110: See p. [23].[(Back)]
Footnote 111: The monumental treatise on the House of Commons prior to 1832 is E. Porritt, The Unreformed House of Commons: Parliamentary Representation before 1832, 2 vols. (2d ed., Cambridge, 1909). On the prevalence of corruption see May and Holland, Constitutional History of England, I., 224-238, 254-262.[(Back)]
Footnote 112: Treatises of Government, II., Chap. 13, § 157.[(Back)]