the German Social Democratic Party will only be maintained by escort toronto according
liberty of action in escort toronto local matters to the South German Socialists.[escort toronto 10]
escort toronto The formation of the French Unified Socialist escort toronto Party was a work of
considerable difficulty, and its maintenance will only be possible if
its constituent parts can tolerate differences of opinion. The two
sections of the English Labour Party have been able to work together by
concentrating their efforts on reforms which are advocated escort toronto by both,
whilst the troubles which have arisen within the smaller group, the
Independent Labour Party, have sprung from attempts to insist upon a
narrow interpretation of the term Independent. The narrower the basis on
which the parties are formed and the more rigid the discipline employed,
the more difficult will become the maintenance of the two-party system.
If, then, it is considered escort toronto essential to the successful working of
parliamentary government that there should be but two parties, these
parties must be based on
broad leading principles and must be so
organized as to allow for differences of opinion on minor matters. With
the increase escort toronto in the number of questions of first-class importance it
will, however, be difficult to escort toronto maintain even the semblance of the
two-party system, and in the absence of those more elastic political
conditions which a system of proportional representation provides,
absolutely impossible.
_Proportional escort toronto representation and party discipline._
The argument in the preceding paragraphs can be illustrated from the
effect of proportional systems on party organization in those countries
in which they are at present in force. In Belgium the prophecy was
repeatedly made that the new law escort toronto would result in the splitting of
parties into petty escort toronto factions, rendering parliamentary escort toronto government
impossible. Its real escort toronto effect has been, if anything, of escort toronto the contrary
character. There are still but three Belgian parties--Catholic, Liberal,
and Socialist. Their principles have tended to become escort toronto more clearly
defined, but within each party there has arisen a considerable freedom
of opinion in respect to all political questions which do not spring
directly from escort toronto the principles on
which the parties are based. This was
clearly shown in the discussion on the proposals for escort toronto the annexation of
the Congo. At the conference of Liberals held before the General
Election of 1908 it was escort toronto decided that the annexation of the Congo should