For these reasons, though we may use the present Constitution of France as a useful aid to our imaginations, in conceiving of a purely Parliamentary Republic, of a monarchy minus the monarch, we must not think of it as much more.
Bagehot cautions against overgeneralizing from the unique characteristics of the French Constitution.
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