A very little consideration would have shown them that, since the monopoly of military inventions by cultivated states, real and effective military power tends to confine itself to those states.
Bagehot argues that military innovations are now monopolized by developed states, affecting the distribution of military power.
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No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
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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