Walter Bagehot: “Again, the primitive man could not have imagined what we mean by a nation.”

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.