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On the Continent, in first-class countries, constitutional royalty has never lasted out of one generation.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “On the Continent, in first-class countries, constitutional royalty has never lasted out of one generation.”
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Bagehot compares the longevity of constitutional royalty in England to that in other European countries.
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These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.
The lessons are good where its primitive assumptions hold, but may be false where those assumptions fail.
I own that I do not entirely sympathise with the horror of these anomalies which haunts some of our best critics.
I cannot, therefore, join in the full cry against anomalies; in my judgment it may quickly overrun the scent, and so miss what we should be glad to find.
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