Walter Bagehot: “Any law which the people of ignorant times enact is sure to involve…”

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Any law which the people of ignorant times enact is sure to involve many misconceptions, and to cause many evils.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot warns that laws enacted by ignorant societies are likely to be flawed and harmful.

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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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Walter Bagehot: “Any law which the people of ignorant times enact is sure to involve many misconceptions, and to cause many evils.”