It is impossible, in fact, to convince their prosaic minds that constitutional royalty is a rational government, that it is suited to a new age and an unbroken country, that those who start afresh can start with it.
Bagehot argues that the practical mindset of Americans makes it difficult for them to accept constitutional monarchy as a viable form of government.
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They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.
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But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.
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