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Excerpt from Caucus System
The caucus is a necessary consequence of majority rule. If the majority is to define the policy of a par ty, there must be some - method within each party Of as certaining the mind of the majority, and settling the party programme, before it meets the opposing party at the polls. The Carlton and Reform clubs discharge for the tories and liberals many of the functions of a congressional caucus. Meetings of the members of the parties in the Rez'cfismg and corps Zegz'sldl'z'f and the chamber of deputies are not unusual, though they have generally merely been for consultation, and neither in England, France, Germany or Italy, has any such authority been conceded to the wish of the majority of a party as we have vested in the decision of a caucus. What has been called a caucus has been established by the liberals Of Birmingham, England, as to which see a paper by W. Fraser Rae, in the International Review for August, 1880.
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