But a self-formed constituency of eager opinions, a missionary constituency, so to speak, would object; it would think it its bounden duty to object; and the crafty manipulators, though they said nothing, in silence would object still more.
Bagehot describes how a passionate constituency would actively object to misrepresentation, contrasting it with passive constituencies.
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