Unit 1 Questions

Please answer each of the following questions.  If you are taking this course in a group you may then meet to discuss your answers.

• Why did Gladstone say that ‘the finance of the country is ultimately associated with the liberties of the country’?
  
  
• Taking your country as an example, how would you describe the development of legislative financial scrutiny over time? What factors have influenced this evolution?

Relevant Internet Resources

Bill of Rights (1689)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/england.htm

British Broadcasting Corporation:
A to Z of Parliament
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/a-z_of_parliament/default.stm

California Department of Finance:
Development of Modern Budgeting
http://www.dof.ca.gov/fisa/bag/history.htm

Magna Carta (1215)
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/magna.html

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Chubb, B. (1952). The Control of Public Expenditure: Financial Committees of the House of Commons. Oxford, Clarendon Press.

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