Walter Bagehot: “It is its office to express the mind of the English people on all matters which come before it.”

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.