Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Origins of Cabinet Government
Government in england is carried on not by royal or imperial ministers as in prussia nor by popular ministers as in the united states but by parliamentary ministers. Each cabinet minister carries on the work of a particular department and for that department he is individually answerable when pit's administration came to an end in 1801 lord lafborough was displaced from the will sack the ex chancellor kept the key of the cabinet boxes. Without being summoned attended meetings of the cabinet at last adding ten wrote to beg him to discontinue his attendance on the principal that quote the number of the cabinet should not exceed that of the persons whose responsible situations in office require there being members of it.
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