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The functionaries are not there for the benefit of the people, but the people for the benefit of the functionaries.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The functionaries are not there for the benefit of the people, but the people for the benefit of the functionaries.”
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Bagehot argues that the functionaries exist primarily to serve their own interests rather than those of the public.
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