Walter Bagehot: “What is there requisite is a single government--call it Church or State, as you like--regulating the whole of human…”

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

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.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.