Walter Bagehot: “These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a…”

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These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot notes that anomalies in the Constitution often signify the remnants of past constitutional conflicts.

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Walter Bagehot: “These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.”