They would, perhaps, be divided between the genuine representatives of the artisans--not possibly of the best of the artisans, who are a select and intellectual class, but of the common order of workpeople--and the merely pretended members for that class whom I may call the members for the public-houses.
Bagehot differentiates between genuine and pretended representatives of the working class.
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