Living across the Atlantic, and misled by accepted doctrines, the acute framers of the Federal Constitution, even after the keenest attention, did not perceive the Prime Minister to be the principal executive of the British Constitution, and the sovereign a cog in the mechanism.
Bagehot reflects on the misunderstandings of the British political system by American framers.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
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