Fifty members of Parliament may be zealous for a particular policy affecting the department, and fifty others for another policy, and between them they may divide its action, spoil its favourite aims, and prevent its consistently working out either of their own aims.
Bagehot discusses the conflicting interests within Parliament that can hinder effective governance.
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There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.
The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
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