BRITISH CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT: A DESCRIPTION OF THE WAY IN WHICH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND ARE MADE AND ADMINISTERED, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF OF THE STATE, AND A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE GROWTH OF THE CONSTITUTION. A READING AND LESSON BOOK FOR SENIOR CLASSES. (Suitable for the Fourth and higher Standards of the Code.) BY FREDERICK WICKS. London: COLLINGS & APPLETON, No. 1, HIGH HOLBORN; 1872. (The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved by the Author.) AF DEDICATED ΤΟ THE RIGHT HON. W. E. FORSTER, M.P., VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION, WHOSE EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE THIS WORK IS DESIGNED TO ASSIST, BY PRESENTING TO THE RISING GENERATION A CLEAR VIEW OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM UNDER WHICH THEY LIVE, AND OF WHICH THEY MAY ULTIMATELY FORM AN ACTIVE PART. |