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It would not have suited the ante-Tudor kings to have had a fictitious assembly; they would have lost their sole FEELER, their only instrument for discovering national opinion.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “It would not have suited the ante-Tudor kings to have had a fictitious assembly; they would have lost their sole FEELER…”
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Bagehot argues that ante-Tudor kings needed a genuine assembly to gauge national sentiment.
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