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As far as experience goes, there is no reason to expect an hereditary series of useful limited monarchs.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot expresses skepticism about the expectation of a lineage of effective limited monarchs.
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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.
If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.
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