Thus, the members for a good voluntary constituency would be hopelessly enslaved, because of its goodness; but the members for a bad voluntary constituency would be yet more enslaved because of its badness.
Bagehot warns that the quality of a voluntary constituency can lead to varying degrees of control over its representatives.
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Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.
The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
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