I dwell on the evils which impair the advantage of colonial governorship because that is the most favoured case of super-Parliamentary royalty, and because from looking at it we can bring freshly home to our minds what the real difficulties of that institution are.
Bagehot discusses the challenges faced by colonial governors as a lens to understand the complexities of constitutional monarchy.
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