A good, capable, hereditary monarch would exercise it better than a Premier, but a Premier could manage it well enough; and a monarch capable of doing better will be born only once in a century, whereas monarchs likely to do worse will be born every day.
He compares the capabilities of a hereditary monarch and a Premier in managing constitutional powers.
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