Walter Bagehot: “The first prerequisite of elective government is the MUTUAL CONFIDENCE of the electors.”

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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.

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