The New Review April 1941

To be understood aright the significance of this change must be read in the light of the changes made in other parts of the Government and in the light of the intentions of the authors of the Constittion so far as they may be gathered from the relevant documents. [...] The extent to which the administration will be influenced by the legislature depends on : (i) the extent to which the two Ministers themselves are able to sense the views of the legislature and guide them (ii) the following which they command in the legislature and (iii) the ability with which they put forward the legislature's point of view in the Council. [...] from one of the keideas of the Constitution ; the fundamental identity of interests between the Government and the people.' It is the peculiar function of the Maharaja as head of the State (placed above all parties and sections and removed from the turmoils of ordinary government) to convince the people of this identity of interests. [...] The English system of parliamentary government is the product of English life ; it works there by the interaction of four essential factors2 : the principle of majority rule ; the willingness of the minority for the time being to accept the decisions of the majority the existence of great Proclamation op. [...] The promulgation of a Constitution Act the widening of the electorate the increased power of the Assembly and the Council the introduction of a popular element in the Administration and the provision for the 1 Thucydides Bk II 35-46.