Excerpt from The Procedure of the House of Commons, Vol. 1: A Study of Its Histort and Present Form What, then, is the business of the House of Commons, the House with which Dr. Redlich is more specially con cerned Its business is threefold legislative, financial, critical. It makes laws with the concurrence of the House Of Lords and of the Crown. It imposes taxes and appro priates revenue. By means of questions and discussions it criticises and controls the action of the executive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.