Walter Bagehot: “But I do not believe that these families have the least corporate character, or any common opinions, different from…”

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

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.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.