It appears to me that the functions of our executive in dissolving the Commons and augmenting the Peers are among the most important, and the least appreciated, parts of our whole government, and that hundreds of errors have been made in copying the English Constitution from not comprehending them.
Bagehot highlights the crucial yet often overlooked functions of the executive in the British government.
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No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
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