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...sometimes there was no " Minister " in the Cabinet Council.' ' Few things in our history,' says Macaulay, ' are more curious than the origin and growth of the power now possessed by the Cabinet. During many years old-fashioned politicians continued to regard the Cabinet as an unconstitutional...

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