Walter Bagehot: “The conclusive arguments against the imagined original civilisation are indeed plain to everyone.”

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

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

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.