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Walter Bagehot: The English system, therefore, is not an absorption of the executive power by the legislative power; it is a fusion of…

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The English system, therefore, is not an absorption of the executive power by the legislative power; it is a fusion of the two.
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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot explains that the English system represents a fusion of executive and legislative powers rather than a simple absorption of one by the other.

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