Walter Bagehot: “As I have endeavoured to show in this volume, the deference of the old electors to their betters was the only way in…”

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

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.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.