The English people must miss a thousand minutiae that continental bureaucracies know even too well; but if they see a cardinal truth which those bureaucracies miss, that cardinal truth may greatly help the world.
Bagehot acknowledges the limitations of the English people's knowledge compared to bureaucracies, but values their grasp of essential truths.
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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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