Author: William R. Anson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781330922668

Excerpt from The Law and Custom of the Constitution, Vol. 1 of 3 Bagehot describes the Constitution as it was when Compare Palmerston was Prime Minister. His book is an analysis of the motive powers of the Government of this country, none the less searching and profound because written in a familiar style. In a Preface to the second edition, which came out in 1872, he admits that much had changed in the previous seven years; that the disappearance of Palmerston, Derby, and Russell, the statesmen of the days before the first Reform Bill, made a marked difference in the atmosphere of politics, independent of any legislative change, and that the extension of the franchise in 1867 had altered, and would probably alter still further, the character of the electorate. But he reprinted his book as it was written, subject to reservations in the Preface; and useful as it may be to compare the Bagehot of 1872 with the Bagehot of 1868, it is more important to compare these with the work of Mr. Low writing in 1904. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.