The committee which unites the law-making power to the law-executing power--which, by virtue of that combination, is, while it lasts and holds together, the most powerful body in the State--is a committee wholly secret.
Bagehot describes the Cabinet as a powerful and secretive committee that unites legislative and executive powers.
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He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
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Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
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