Walter Bagehot: “A very strong executive was needed to keep down a divided, an armed, and an impatient country; and therefore the problem…”

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.