60
5. The Executive Departments 61
6. The Cabinet: Composition and Character 64
7. The Cabinet in Action 70

IV. PARLIAMENT: THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
1. The House of Commons prior to 1832 77
2. Parliamentary Reform, 1832-1885 80
3. The Franchise and the Electoral Questions of To-day 86
4. Electoral Procedure and Regulations 92

V. PARLIAMENT: THE HOUSE OF LORDS (p. x)
1. Composition 97
2. The Reform of the Lords: the Question prior to 1909 101
3. The Question of the Lords, 1909-1911 106
4. The Parliament Act of 1911 and After 112

VI. PARLIAMENT, ORGANIZATION, FUNCTIONS, PROCEDURE
1. The Assembling of the Chambers 117
2. Organization of the House of Commons 120
3. Organization of the House of Lords 125
4. Privileges of the Houses and of Members 126
5. The Functions of Parliament 128
6. General Aspects of Parliamentary Procedure 132
7. The Conduct of Business in the two Houses 138

VII. POLITICAL PARTIES
1. Parliamentarism and the Party System 143
2. Parties in the Later Eighteenth and Earlier Nineteenth
Centuries 145
3. The Second Era of Whig [Liberal] Ascendancy, 1830-1874 147
4. The Second Era of Conservative Ascendancy, 1874-1905 150
5. The Liberal Revival 155
6. The Rule of the Liberals, 1906-1912 158
7. The Parties of To-day 162

VIII. JUSTICE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
1. English Law 167
2. The Inferior Courts 170
3. The Higher Courts 173
4. Local Government to the Municipal Corporations Act,
1835 176
5. Local