Last week's general election meant as much to Britons as a combined election of President, House of Representatives and full Senate would mean to Americans. So far as the national government is concerned, a vote for a member of Parliament is a vote for the whole works.
In seven centuries of jurisdictional thrust and parry, the House of Commons has whittled away the executive prerogatives of the British monarchy, broken the House of Lords to the rank of a disregarded auxiliary, and concentrated in its own hands the two branches of government which the...
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