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Any of these varied Constitutions may be right, but all of them can scarcely be right.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Any of these varied Constitutions may be right, but all of them can scarcely be right.”
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Bagehot reflects on the validity of various constitutional frameworks, suggesting that while many may be plausible, they cannot all be correct simultaneously.
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