Walter Bagehot: “At an election the non-titled are much more powerful than the titled.”

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.