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But the difficulty of keeping a good legislature, is evidently secondary to the difficulty of first getting it.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “But the difficulty of keeping a good legislature, is evidently secondary to the difficulty of first getting it.”
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Bagehot points out that the challenge of maintaining a good legislature is secondary to the challenge of establishing one in the first place.
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