Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Restrictive Constitutional Provisions of the House of Commons
Government of the realm should be parliamentary or monarchial was it to be an absolute rule of the king or as crumb well sought a parliament making laws and voting money coordinate with the authority of the chief person. A parliament containing nominating guiding and controlling its own executive wallpole found it easiest safest and most natural to work steadily toward the last of these three systems. He founded his government directly on the support of a wig majority in the house of commons though that majority was in great part due to the ascent of powerful members of the house of lords. The second question was how to keep administration in gear with the party majority and wallpole solution was a party cabinet.
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