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The American Constitution has a special contrivance for varying the supreme legislative authority in different cases, and dividing the administrative authority from it in all cases.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot explains the unique structure of the American Constitution regarding legislative and administrative powers.
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And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.
But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.
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It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
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