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Walter Bagehot: There the legislature cannot be dissolved by the executive Government; and it does not heed a resignation, for it has…

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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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Bagehot explains the independence of the legislature in a Presidential system.

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