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We have not needed a Cavour to rule a revolution--a representative man above all men fit for a great occasion, and by a natural legal mode brought in to rule.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot asserts that England has not required a singularly exceptional leader during revolutions, thanks to its constitutional framework.
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