We hardly appreciate this common feeling in our colonies, because WE appoint THEIR sovereign; but we should understand it in an instant if, by a political metamorphosis, the choice were turned the other way--if THEY appointed OUR sovereign.
Bagehot reflects on the implications of sovereignty and colonial governance.
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And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.
They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
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.
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