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The mass of the English people are politically contented as well as politically deferential.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The mass of the English people are politically contented as well as politically deferential.”
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Bagehot claims that the English populace is both politically content and deferential.
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