Beyond Proportional Representation
David Marquand, 18 February 1982
The People and the Party System: The Referendum and Electoral Reform in British Politics
by Vernon Bogdanor.
Cambridge, 285 pp., £20, September 1981,9780521242073 Show More
by Vernon Bogdanor.
Cambridge, 285 pp., £20, September 1981,
“... was sovereign because the people were sovereign, and because Parliament represented the people. Laws enacted by the Crown in Parliament were legitimate because the Members of Parliament who voted for them were elected by, and accountable to, their constituents. The executive acts of Government were legitimate because the members of the Government were ... ”