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ANALYSIS.

CHAPTER I.

THE CONSTITUTION AND ITS MOVEMENTS.

Nature and elements of the Inquiry.

Necessity of studying institutions in their working, development,

and mutual dependence.

Moral as well as legal elements in the Constitution.

Sources of information as to its variable elements:

Acts of Parliament,

Judicial decisions,

Current interpretations of acknowledged principles, as shown

in

deliberate utterances of statesmen,

comments of scientific writers,

manifestations of popular feeling,

reports of executive acts and their reception by Parliament and the public.

Organic unity of the Constitution.

Necessity of treating every part of it in its relation to all the other parts.

CHAPTER II.

THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

SECTION 1.-COMPOSITION

AND MUTUAL RELATIONS OF THE
HOUSES.

Parliament the organ of Constitutional change.
The two Assemblies one Legislature.

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