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All we can say is, that a Parliament with little business, which is to be as efficient as a Parliament with much business, must be in all other respects much better.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot argues that a Parliament with less work can still be more effective than a busy one, suggesting quality over quantity in governance.
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I own that I do not entirely sympathise with the horror of these anomalies which haunts some of our best critics.
These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.
It is natural that those who by special and admirable culture have come to look at all things upon the artistic side, should start back from these queer peculiarities.
Subject to this saving remark, however, I not only admit, but maintain, that our Constitution is full of curious oddities, which are impeding and mischievous, and ought to be struck out.
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