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Whenever the nation was both excited and determined, such a rule would be an acute and dangerous political poison.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Whenever the nation was both excited and determined, such a rule would be an acute and dangerous political poison.”
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Bagehot warns that a strict rule could be politically harmful when the nation is both excited and determined.
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