Walter Bagehot: “The compact tribes win, and the compact tribes are the tamest.”

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.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.