Treaties are quite as important as most laws, and to require the elaborate assent of representative assemblies to every word of the law, and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty, is prima facie ludicrous.
Bagehot argues for the importance of parliamentary consultation in treaty-making, highlighting its absurdity to exclude them.
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