An Act of Parliament is at least as complex as a marriage settlement; and it is made much as a settlement would be if it were left to the vote and settled by the major part of persons concerned, including the unborn children.
Bagehot compares the complexity of an Act of Parliament to that of a marriage settlement.
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In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.
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But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
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