The American Constitution was made upon a most careful argument, and most of that argument assumes the king to be the administrator of the English Constitution, and an unhereditary substitute for him--viz., a president--to be peremptorily necessary.
Bagehot analyzes the American Constitution's assumptions about the British monarchy and executive power.
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The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
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.
He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
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