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The passions of its members are its rulers; the law-making faculty, the most comprehensive of the imperial faculties, is its instrument; it will take the administration if it can take it.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot describes the dynamics of a legislative body and its tendency to seek control over administration.
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