ANY permanent legislature at all, any constantly acting mechanism for enacting and repealing laws, is, though it seems to us so natural, quite contrary to the inveterate conceptions of mankind.
Bagehot reflects on the concept of a permanent legislature and its contradiction to historical human thought.
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