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The poorer and more ignorant classes--those who would most feel excitement, who would most be misled by excitement--really believe that the Queen governs.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot points out that less educated classes often mistakenly believe in the direct governance of the monarchy.
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That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.
And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
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