Walter Bagehot: “The persons most ready to take up that sort of business are benevolent amateurs, very well intentioned, very grave, very…”

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.