Walter Bagehot: “He was Prime Minister because he managed the House of Commons; he was turned out because he was beaten on an election…”

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

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.