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An undue advantage was given to a part of the Constitution, and therefore the progress of the whole was stayed.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “An undue advantage was given to a part of the Constitution, and therefore the progress of the whole was stayed.”
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Bagehot warns against giving undue advantage to parts of the Constitution.
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