Excerpt from The Methods and Conditions of Legislation: An Address Delivered in Carnegie Hall, at the Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the New York State Bar Association, Held at the City of New York, on the 24th and 25th of January, 1908 Bills brought in by private members-are drafted by themselves, or by some lawyer whom they employ for the purpose. Should a private member ask a minister or a department for assistance, it would usually be given him, assuming that the department approved of its pur pose. Nowadays, however, a private member's, bill has no chance of passing, if opposed; so that legislation likely to raise any controversy has virtually passed into the hands of the Ministry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.