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The Cabinet system ensures such debates, for it makes them the means by which statesmen advertise themselves for future and confirm themselves in present Governments.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The Cabinet system ensures such debates, for it makes them the means by which statesmen advertise themselves for future…”
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Bagehot explains how the Cabinet system fosters public debates as a means of political engagement.
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The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.
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