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Privy Council, Cabinet, and Ministry in Britain and Canada: A Comment on the Expansion of the Cabinet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Trevor Lloyd
Trevor Lloyd*
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University of Toronto
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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , February 1966 , pp. 88 - 90
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1966

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2 Ibid., 200–1.

3 Ibid., 198.

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