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The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot highlights the importance of emotional and imaginative sentiments in establishing a true monarchy, which cannot be artificially created.
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