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It is the age which saw the crystallization of the party-system, and therein it may perhaps lay claim to have recognized what Bagehot called the vital principle of representative government.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski identifies the eighteenth century as a pivotal time for the development of the party system in representative government.
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