At any rate, an isocratic polity--a polity where every one votes, and where every one votes alike--is, in a community of sound education and diffused intelligence, a conceivable case of Cabinet government.
Bagehot theorizes about a political system where equal voting could lead to effective governance in an educated society.
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There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.
The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.
And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.
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