Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The History of the Cabinet System
The name of cabinet council according to the books first occurs casually in bacons essays sir wall taraali gave the name of cabinetCouncil to his curious collection of political and polemical aphorisms as a piece of mechanism. A cabinet is first heard of in the reign of charles the first and is mentioned both by clarindin in peeps charles the second made certain well-known experiments in the same direction but no monarch with charles's absolutist leanings could desire to set up anybody of private advisors in an established position within either the letter of the law or the spirit of the constitution. The system combines unity steadfastness and initiative in the executive with the possession
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