Walter Bagehot: “They were bona-fide counsellors, whose opinion might be wise or unwise, but was anyhow of paramount importance, because…”

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.