Walter Bagehot: “That Constitution is conceived to be the best imaginable use of the political elements which the great majority of…”

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.