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The nation may be misfitted with its laws, and need to change them: some particular corn law may hurt all industry, and it may be worth a thousand administrative blunders to get rid of it.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot reflects on the need for legislative reform when laws negatively impact industry.
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