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There the legislature cannot be dissolved by the executive Government; and it does not heed a resignation, for it has not to find the successor.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgThere the legislature cannot be dissolved by the executive Government; and it does not heed a resignation, for it has not to find the successor.
Bagehot explains the independence of the legislature in a Presidential system.
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