The particular mode in which the English Ministers are selected; the fiction that they are, in any political sense, the Queen's servants; the rule which limits the choice of the Cabinet to the members of the legislature--are accidents unessential to its definition--historical incidents separable from its nature.
Bagehot argues that certain historical aspects of the Cabinet's formation are not essential to its function.
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