The custom of the realm--the aboriginal transmitted law--the law which was in the breast of the judges, could not be altered without the consent of Parliament, and therefore everybody felt sure it would not be altered except in grave, peculiar, and anomalous cases.
Bagehot explains the importance of Parliament's consent for altering the law in early societies.
Share
More from Walter Bagehot
But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.
They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.
Other voices in this conversation
