The result would be, as I have tried to explain, that the Assembly would be always changing its Ministry, that having no reason to fear the penalty which that change so often brings in England, they would be ready to make it once a month.
Bagehot warns that the lack of accountability in the French Assembly could lead to frequent changes in government.
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