ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the three agencies named above in American government, and in many other governments. With the stratification of the population into classes, and with the community growing in size, new groupings of governmental activities will form, new agencies will appear. There is one method of classifying the "powers" of government which seems definitively to abandon the observed groups of. functionaries and to set up a line of distinction concerning "functions " which do not rest directly on corresponding "organs", but instead cut across the organs. The judiciary is a much more sharply separated agency of government, despite its culmination in the House of Lords, and despite the political character of one or two of the highest judicial officers. The chapter finds the organization for the control of the monarch to rest mainly in occasional revolution, and to be different from the organization for control of the popular assembly, which will be by ballot.