a two – party system, one in office, the other in Opposition. But fairly good results can also be obtained when there are fairly solid blocs, each consisting of parties who habitually work together and who have enough in common to permit them to evolve a definite political programme. The classical example of a two – party system is Britain. Britain hates a coalition government, because it contradicts the fundamental principle that the cabinet represents a party united in principle. Britain’s example has been admirably followed in the Dominion countries, although in Australia and New Zealand the anit-Labourite groups formed a partnership in order to defeat their Labourite opponents in 1949. In France and other Continental countries the multiple-party system exists and coalition government was the only possibility be fore the fifth Republic in the former came into being. The result was that the government was a combination of strange bed-follows who had nothing in common; no leader to follow, no definite programme to pursue, and no discipline to observe. All this led to a precarious tenure of the government. For example, during the twenty-three years from the end of the First World War to the French collapse in the Second World War, France had forty-two governments, while Britain had eleven, averaging six months, and twenty-five months respectively. When the life of government is precarious and short, it is hesitant and unable to take a long view of policy. Its work is largely limited to matters of daily administration and its chief purpose is to remain in office instead of really governing. Moreover, when on party can definitely be made responsible because of a coalition, the government can neither be responsive be nor really representative. An irresponsible government coupled with an in-coherent public opinion is always a sectional government, which encourages corruption, jobbey, neopotism, toadying, and various other accompanying evils. The final result is the failure of the Parliamentary system as it happened in France. The Constitution of the Fifth Republic cannot legitimately be called a Parliamentary government. It was deliberately designed to correct the imbalances of the preceding Constitutions.