Walter Bagehot: “Even under a Parliamentary government such a community could and would…”

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Even under a Parliamentary government such a community could and would bear taxation much more easily than Englishmen ever would.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot believes that even under a Parliamentary system, Americans would handle taxation better than the English.

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Walter Bagehot: “Even under a Parliamentary government such a community could and would bear taxation much more easily than Englishmen…”