No one can any longer doubt the possibility of a republic in which the executive and the legislative authorities were united and fixed; no one can assert such union to be the incommunicable attribute of a Constitutional Monarchy.
Bagehot discusses the potential for a republic to have a unified executive and legislative authority, challenging the notion that this is exclusive to constitutional monarchies.
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