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 | | There are sections on constituencies and elections, the members, the organization and business of the House, as well as appendices with a wealth of information on the activities of MPs both in and outside the Commons, from their membership of committees to their criminal and immoral predilections. |
 | | The parliaments of 1690-1715 not only saw the perfection of England's first party system, but also the beginning of the fact of Parliament as a permanent, perennial mechanism of the Constitution rather than an _ad hoc_ and occasional debating club, dependent on the monarch's whim. |
 | | Clearly, the old charge that History of Parliament biographies were limited in usefulness by their nearly exclusive concentration on parliamentary, or at least high political, activities cannot stand the evidence of these entries. |
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