HIS RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
This series is intended to meet the demand for accessible information of the ordinary conditions, and the current terms, of our political life. Ignorance of these not only takes from the study of history the interest which comes from a contact with practical politics, but, still worse, it unfits men for their place as intelligent citizens.
The series will deal with the details of the machinery whereby our Constitution works, and the broad lines upon which it has been constructed.
The books are not intended to interpret disputed points in Acts of Parliament, nor to refer in detail to clauses or sections of those Acts; but to select and sum up the salient features of any branch of legislation, so as to place the ordinary citizen in possession of the main points of the law. They are intended further to show how such legislation arose, and (without going into minute historical or antiquarian details) to show how it has been the outcome of our history, how circumstances have led up to it, and what is its significance as affecting the relation between the individual and the state.
The following are the titles of the volumes:—
1. CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. H. D. Traill, D.C.L., late Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford. [Ready.
2. THE ELECTORATE AND THE LEGISLATURE. Spencer Walpole, Author of “The History of England from 1815.” [Ready.
3. LOCAL GOVERNMENT. M. D. Chalmers. [Ready.
4. JUSTICE AND POLICE. F. Pollock, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
5. THE NATIONAL BUDGET: THE NATIONAL DEBT, TAXES AND RATES. A. J. Wilson. [Ready.