Second chambers in practice in modern legislative systems considered in relation to representative government, the party system & the referendum; being the papers of the Rainbow Circle, 1910-11
SECOND INCHAMBERS PRACTICE ,. Second Chambers in Practice In Modern inconsideredLegislative Systems relation to theGovernment,Representative Party & the ReferendumSystem the of the Rainbow CircleBeing Papers j i SESSION 1910-11. G. P. GOOCH. RAMSAY M.P.J. MACDONALD, H. HARLEY. F. MATHESON.J. JAMES O. HERDMAN. PERRIS.G. H.J. A. MURRAY M.P. M. M.P.J. MACDONALD, JOHN ROBERTSON, -H. r> ; R. ;WALKER. Xonfcon P. S. KING & SON WESTMINSTERORCHARD HOUSE, 1911 PREFACE the Rainbow Circle has not its trans-previously published a few words as to its nature andactions,AS perhaps origin may not be out of The Circle was founded inplace. 1893 by the late Mr William Clarke and Mr A. whoJ. Murray Macdonald, a small band of men interested in the of socialgot together study with insistencewhich were them-questions, ever-growing thrusting the notice of serious The first fewselves upon politicians. meetings were held at the National Liberal and the first was readClub, paper the late Canon Shuttleworth of St Paul's. The ofby place meeting inwas soon to the Rainbow Tavern Fleet and itStreet,changed the derived its name. a fewwas thus that Circle Only meetings were held at the and since the Circle hasRainbow, January 1895 met once a month for nine months in the at the houseregularly year of Sir Richard in The didStapley Bloomsbury Square. Society not, to its name.
SECOND INCHAMBERS PRACTICE ,.Second Chambers in Practice In Modern inconsideredLegislative Systems relation to theGovernment,Representative Party & the ReferendumSystem the of the Rainbow CircleBeing Papers j i SESSION 1910-11. G. P. GOOCH. RAMSAY M.P.J. MACDONALD, H. HARLEY. F. MATHESON.J. JAMES O. HERDMAN. PERRIS.G. H.J. A. MURRAY M.P. M. M.P.J. MACDONALD, JOHN ROBERTSON, -H. r> ; R. ;WALKER. Xonfcon P. S. KING & SON WESTMINSTERORCHARD HOUSE, 1911