On the record
The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.
Said by
Walter Bagehot
Source
gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the…”
Editor's note · Context
Here, Bagehot argues that the United States' political structure inherently prevents it from adopting a monarchy, regardless of intentions.
Share
More from Walter Bagehot
If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.
He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
Other voices in this conversation
