Assertion (A): A genuine party system, that is, one which contains two or more parties is a major step in the attainment of political maturity and it was only a century and a half back that political parties in the real sense came into being.
Reason (R): It is, a curious fact that in Britain where the party system first began, political parties are still unknown to law, though without them the whole nature of the British constitution would be changed and many of the conventions, would become unworkable.