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Such a body has no force to put down the nation, and if the nation will have it do something it must do it.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Such a body has no force to put down the nation, and if the nation will have it do something it must do it.”
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Bagehot argues that a timid assembly cannot suppress the will of the nation and must act according to its demands.
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