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    <namePart type="date">1903-1965</namePart>
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    <publisher>Penquin Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1954</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1984</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>158 p. : 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Freedom under the law: The rule of law -- Parliamentary sovereignty -- Democracy -- The tyranny of the majority -- The queen: The queen -- The crown -- The queen and the commonwealth -- The queen in person -- The queen and the common man -- Politics: The importance of politics -- Politics and the social classes -- The two-party system -- The queen in parliament: The queen -- The house of lords -- The house of commons -- Her majesty's government: The transfer of power -- Agencies of government -- The civil service -- Ministerial control -- Cabinet government: The ministry and the cabinet -- Collective responsibility -- Cabinet procedure -- Government and opinion -- The prime minister: The office -- Functions -- The queen's justice: Law and opinion -- The independence of the judiciary -- Functions of the judiciary -- Governments according to law -- Further reading.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Sir Ivor Jennings.</note>
  <note>Reprint. Originally published: Reprinted (with revisions). Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; Baltimore, Md., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1965 printing, c1954.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <note>Bibliography: p. [155].</note>
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    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="19">320.941</classification>
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