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Many a battered Minister may be seen to think much more of the vicissitudes which make him and unmake him, than of any office matter.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot notes that many ministers are more concerned with their political fortunes than with their actual duties.
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But it is natural also that persons used to analyse political institutions should look at these anomalies with a little tenderness and a little interest.
These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.
Subject to this saving remark, however, I not only admit, but maintain, that our Constitution is full of curious oddities, which are impeding and mischievous, and ought to be struck out.
It is natural that those who by special and admirable culture have come to look at all things upon the artistic side, should start back from these queer peculiarities.
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