Walter Bagehot: “If you examine carefully the lists of members, especially of the most prominent members, of either side of the House…”

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

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.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.