Walter Bagehot: “We have by present practice an Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer talking English finance at Calcutta, and an English…”

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

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.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.