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It chooses rulers as we wish rulers to be chosen.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “It chooses rulers as we wish rulers to be chosen.”
Editor's note · Context
Bagehot asserts that the House of Commons chooses leaders in a manner consistent with public expectations.
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It is natural that those who by special and admirable culture have come to look at all things upon the artistic side, should start back from these queer peculiarities.
These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.
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