Walter Bagehot: “Where there is no Court there can be no evil influence from a Court.”

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

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.

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

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.