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These new questions of themselves would have made a new atmosphere, new parties, new debates.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “These new questions of themselves would have made a new atmosphere, new parties, new debates.”
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Bagehot suggests that emerging political questions inherently create new dynamics in the political landscape.
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