ABSTRACT
The several liberties and privileges of the people which had undergone a sizable restriction in the years of the war were restored to their full stature. The War Cabinet, as well as most of its accompanying innovations, was abandoned by Lloyd George in the face of growing criticism in October 1919. The new Cabinet, still headed by Ramsay MacDonald and now of normal size, put through the remainder of its emergency program, including the last two delegating statutes, with consummate ease. The clean break with the tradition of the common law and martial law, indeed with the whole of British constitutional development, was effected in the Emergency Powers Act of 1920. Since 1920 then, the British government has been armed with emergency powers foreseen and foreordained in the approved continental manner. With the exception of the General Strike of 1926, the British government was not once called upon to meet a serious national crisis engendered by social or political maladjustment.
