Is it not a novelty which strikes at the root of our parliamentary government? under which the first duty of a majority freshly elected, according to a uniform course of precedent and a very clear principle, is to establish a government which has its confidence.
Morley questions a parliamentary practice that undermines the government's responsibility to establish confidence after elections.
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