Let us strip Cabinet government of all its accessories, let us reduce it to its two necessary constituents--a representative assembly (a House of Commons) and a Cabinet appointed by that assembly--and examine how we should manage with them only.
Bagehot proposes a simplified view of Cabinet government by stripping it down to its essential components.
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