I

”»
yA

constitutional law of the latter country is bound up
with that of the former. But the Government of
Great Britain can only exercise powers of general
control over so distant a country as India, and the
main portion of the business of Government has to
be performed by authorities in this country to
whom - powers are delegated by parliamentary
statutes, Owing to the vast size of the Indian
Empire the system of government comprises certain
local authorities, who exercise administrative, and,
in some instances, legislative powers over the
provinces into which the country is sub-divided,
as well as a supreme government and legislature
controlling these subordinate local governments.
In dealing with the constitution of the government
of this country, therefore, it becomes necessary to
consider the nature of the government of Great
Britain, as well as that of the supreme and
provincial governments in India; and also to
ascertain the position of the protected states in
relation to these governments.

The organization of any government includes
the determination of the persons who take part in
it; how these persons are related to one another
and to the rest of the community; how laws are
made; how and by whom they are enforced;
and what securities the people of the country have
against misgovernment. In the words of Dicey in
his lectures on constitutional law: * constitutional
law includes all rules which directly or indirectly