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He must paint it as it stood at some one time, or else he will be putting side by side in his representations things which never were contemporaneous in reality.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “He must paint it as it stood at some one time, or else he will be putting side by side in his representations things…”
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He notes the difficulty of accurately representing a constitution that is in flux over time.
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