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Foreword to the second edition Foreword to the first edition Introduction
1 - The origins of responsible government
2 - The development of the Westminster system
3 - Choosing a government-lower houses as electoral colleges
4 - The executive government
5 - Curiously ill-defined-the role of the head of state
6 - Passing laws-lower houses as legislatures
7 - The other roles of lower houses
8 - Upper houses
9 - Parliamentary control of delegated legislation
10 - What parliaments cannot do
11 - What is wrong with an elective dictatorship?
12 - Where do we go from here?
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