He must meet the House of Commons in debate; he must be able to guide that assembly in the management of its business, to gain its ear in every emergency, to rule it in its hours of excitement.
Bagehot emphasizes the importance of a leader's ability to engage and manage the House of Commons effectively.
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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.
If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.
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