When you establish a predominant Parliament, you give over the rule of the country to a despot who has unlimited time--who has unlimited vanity--who has, or believes he has, unlimited comprehension, whose pleasure is in action, whose life is work.
Bagehot warns that a dominant Parliament can lead to the rise of a despotic leader with unchecked power.
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No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
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