foot-notes will be found references to books, documents, and
periodical materials of widely varying types, and it is hoped that
some of these may serve to guide student and reader to more intensive
information.

The preparation of the book has been facilitated by the encouragement
and the expert advice accorded me by a number of teachers of
government in colleges and universities in various portions of the
country. And I have had at all times the patient and discriminating
assistance of my wife. For neither the plan nor the details of the
work, however, can responsibility be attached to anyone save myself. I
can only hope that amidst the multitude of facts, some elusive and
many subject to constant change, which I have attempted here to set
down, not many seriously vitiating errors may have escaped detection.

Frederic Austin OGG.
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
January 10, 1913.

TABLE OF CONTENTS (p. ix)

PART I.--GREAT BRITAIN

I. THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION
1. The Importance of Historical Background 1
2. Anglo-Saxon Beginnings 2
3. The Norman-Plantagenet Period 6
4. The Rise of Parliament 11
5. Administrative and Judicial Development 16
6. The Tudor Monarchy 18
7. Parliament under the Tudors 21
8. The Stuarts: Crown and Parliament 26
9. The Later Stuarts: the Revolution of 1688-1689 31

II. THE CONSTITUTION SINCE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
1. Crown and Parliament after 1789 34
2. Rise of the Cabinet and of Political Parties 37
3. The Scottish and Irish Unions 39
4. The Nature and Sources of the Constitution 41
5. The Flexibility of the Constitution 44

III. THE CROWN AND THE MINISTRY
1. The Crown: Legal Status and Privileges 48
2. The Powers of the Crown 52
3. The Importance and Strength of the Monarchy 58
4. Privy Council, Ministry, and Cabinet