The independence of the legislative and executive powers is the specific quality of Presidential government, just as their fusion and combination is the precise principle of Cabinet government.
Bagehot contrasts the principles of Presidential and Cabinet governments, focusing on their structural differences.
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But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
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