NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Collective responsibility

Collective responsibility is a principle of British Cabinet Government in which the members of the Cabinet must support all Governmental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them.

On occasion, this principle has been suspended, most notably in the 1930s when the National Government allowed its Liberal members to oppose the introduction of protective tariffs and again in the 1970s, when Harold Wilson allowed Cabinet members to campaign both for and against Britain joining the EEC.

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Collective Moral Responsibility [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (7293 words)
	Collective responsibility extends moral accountability beyond the relatively narrow scope of interpersonal relationships, but it remains a contested topic in moral philosophy.
	In this third type, moral responsibility is aggregated individual responsibility, not the responsibility of the whole group as an entity, independent of individual members.
	The final type of collective responsibility is the only one of the four in which culpability is not reducible.

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