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The assembly cannot be induced to maintain any administration; it shifts its selection now from one Minister to another Minister, and in consequence there is no government at all.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The assembly cannot be induced to maintain any administration; it shifts its selection now from one Minister to another…”
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Bagehot critiques the instability of an assembly that frequently changes its ministers, leading to ineffective governance.
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Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.
That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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