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But the difficulty of keeping a good legislature, is evidently secondary to the difficulty of first getting it.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “But the difficulty of keeping a good legislature, is evidently secondary to the difficulty of first getting it.”
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Bagehot points out that the challenge of maintaining a good legislature is secondary to the challenge of establishing one in the first place.
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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.
Subject to this saving remark, however, I not only admit, but maintain, that our Constitution is full of curious oddities, which are impeding and mischievous, and ought to be struck out.
The lessons are good where its primitive assumptions hold, but may be false where those assumptions fail.
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