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If they are not excluded they become the executive, they eclipse the President himself.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “If they are not excluded they become the executive, they eclipse the President himself.”
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Bagehot warns that including the President's Ministers in the legislature could undermine the President's authority.
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