Although the British retained various reserved matters under their direct control, including defence and foreign affairs, the 1921 constitution was the most democratic up to that point. It made provision for a Legislative Assembly to be returned by an extended franchise, and for a Senate sitting as an Upper House. For the first time the administration of Malta's domestic affairs would been trusted to a Cabinet of Ministers responsible to an elected legislature. The Maltese government could initiate legislation in various domains. After three general elections, trouble arose between the administration led by the Constitutional-Labour compact and the Church, heralding a period of recurrent turbulence. English and Maltese were recognized as official languages in 1934 when the culture clash came to a head and the Nationalist administration, which had been returned in a landslide in 1932, was dismissed in 1933. It was not until 1947 that self-government was restituted, whereupon the march towards social and political reform resumed. The plan to integrate Malta with Britain having failed, in December 1957 the Labour and Nationalist parties agreed to 'break with Britain', but a few months later the Labour government resigned and 'self-government' once again went into abeyance.

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